[ARC5] The Green Books

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I remember those discussions.  And like Dave, I don't recall the details.  
:-(  I think that most of the discussions took place on the Milsurplus list. 
 It was around that time that I acquired my original set of the three 
volumes.

The name "The Green Books", was I think coined by someone during those 
discussions.  It should be mentioned that all of the volumes, not just the three 
on the Signal Corps, were bound with green covers.  My best set of SIG 5 
has the same binding.  So it may have been a U.S. Government Printing Office 
thingy back then.  For all of those reasons, the title "The Green Books" 
would automatically equate to the three Signal Corps volumes only to a 
vanishingly small percentage of the general populace.

The entire series, as of about 1991, consisted of 75 volumes.  Apparently 
funded by Barnes & Noble, the GPO reprinted the series between 1989 and 1991 
for the 50th anniversarys of WW-II.  All of the covers of the reprints that 
I have seen (I have about a dozen of them) are brown

In a message dated 06/15/2017 20:49:42 PM Central Daylight Time, 
arc5 at ix.netcom.com writes: 
> Well, someone has to be "the skunk at the wedding"
> and I'm good at that.
> 
> Important to remember that "The Green Books,"
> while excellent material, are not infallible or 
> always 100% correct.
> Many years ago, we had some long threads
> on "The Green Books" and several of us defined a few
> questionable quotes and references.  I don't remember
> what they were now, but I remember we had them.
> Also- the writers gave Radio less attention in details
> than they did Radar.  That's understandable, since
> Radio was a familiar concept and technology by 1940
> and some of the "shine had gone off the apple,"
> while Radar was the "new, shiney thingie."  
> And rightly so.  Radar was indeed one of  those
> WWII "Hinge of Fate" things on which the outcome
> of the war turned.
> 
> I'm not saying the books are "bad."  Not at all.
> They are quite excellent.  But if you feel some 
> point should be questioned, you should feel
> justified in bringing it to discussion.
> 
> GL OM DE Dave AB5S
> 

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