[ARC5] [Milsurplus] B-10 Exported with SCR-134, SCR-183

[Mark K3MSB]

Good Evening Glen

The Air Classics article I'm reading does not show any Martins going to the
Philippines,  but Wikipedia does.   Perhaps some of the Martins delivered
to Thailand or China eventually made their way to the Philippines;  that's
only my speculation based upon your vague remembrance and not based on any
shred of evidence.   Perhaps you were remembering Dutch Martins?

The Dutch got 118 Martins between 1937 and 1939.

>From the 1965 Air Classics article:   " [ In early 1942] Even though
outmoded by attacking Japanese fighters, the Dutch Martins gave a good
account of themselves in hundreds of sorties against airfields, warships
and troop carriers.  Quite a few Zeroes fell to the Martin, most of them
apparently taken unawares by the ventral tunnel gun, a vestigial hangover
from Gotha designs.  The Martins sank several troopships, drowning an
estimated 26,000 Japanese soldiers.  In addition, they were credited with
numerous aircraft, a cruiser, several destroyers, and many smaller craft.
All the martins but one perished in the air or on the ground -- the lone
survivor flew to Australia in March 1942."    From "Martin's Gallant
Soldier by Watt Bayne, Air Classics Aug/Sept 1965 issue.


73 Mark K3MSB


On Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 10:56 AM, Glen Zook <gzook at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Has anyone looked for information on the Martin B-12 / B-12A?  This was
> the same aircraft but with different engines.
>
> I vaguely remember reading somewhere that a Philippine flown B-10 or B-12
> actually sank a Japanese warship during the first months of World War II.
>
> Glen, K9STH Website: http://k9sth.net
>
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> *From:* Mark K3MSB <mark.k3msb at gmail.com>
> *To:* Mike Morrow <kk5f at arrl.net>
> *Cc:* ARC-5 <arc5 at mailman.qth.net>; List Milsurplus <
> milsurplus at mailman.qth.net>
> *Sent:* Wednesday, November 11, 2015 5:13 PM
> *Subject:* Re: [ARC5] [Milsurplus] B-10 Exported with SCR-134, SCR-183
>
> Hi Mike
>
> Well, I'm not surprised various sources do not agree on something that
> occurred 85 years ago!
>
> I show the XB-907, XB-10, 14 YB-10, and a single YB-10A were made between
> 1932 and 1933.
>
> Doing a quick sanity check on Wikipedia "The first 14 aircraft were
> designated YB-10 and delivered to Wright Field, starting in November 1933.
> The production model of the XB-10, the YB-10 was very similar to its
> prototype"
>
> I certainly agree that the radios delivered on the early variants were
> probably not the ones later ones.
>
> Here's a photo of the cockpit of a B-10B (of which about 105 were produced
> between 1934 and 1936).
>
> http://www.k3msb.com/temp/B10B_Cockpit.jpg
>
> Note the coffee grinder towards the left of the control panel.  That looks
> similiar to one used with an ARB (and I have no idea if that's what it
> is.....).  Point being, I don't think that remote head was controlling an
> SCR-134,  Different radios may very well have been used in later variants
> (or changed during the aricraft's career, which lasted in some fashion
> towards the latter part of WW II.).
>
>