[ARC5] T-30 Throat Mike Use

[Robert Eleazer]

I'm in the process of reading a book entitled, "Flying the B-26 Marauder Over Europe" written by a WWII B-26 navigator.  It has a lot of interesting detail about B-26 operations and it mentions that the crew generally used throat mikes for intercom communications - and that resulted in some amount of garbled communications.

He also mentions that when flying from North Africa to England, ferrying their airplanes to the base they would use, that he noted they had picked up a headwind.  Radio silence had been ordered and they noted the lead aircraft signaling them with a blinker light in Morse.  They finally got the radio operator to come decipher the Morse; it turned out that the lead navigator had noted the headwind as well and was signaling them of the fact. Although aircrew were trained in Morse, that example shows how much they were capable of understanding - very little.

Wayne