[ARC5] Talking to Airplanes From the Ground

[Robert Eleazer]

Well, that's the point. The US military lacked suitable portable radios capable of communicating with aircraft.  The BC-654 was a lot to haul around and set up. I would guess that something about the size of three BC-611's put together could have done the job pretty well on HF, but I have wondered if the lack of such a set reflected more the available technology or the doctrine.  The RAF in the CBI thought it was perfectly fine for the ground troops to relay their CAS requests back to some HQ and have them brief the pilots on what targets to hit.  That sounds crazy from our pespective today, and the RAF apparently had already come up with a FAC concept in the Western desert, but the situation in Burma was that only the USAAF P-51A's could talk to the ground troops.

Wayne
WB5WSV.    

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