[ARC5] BC-611 Production numbers

[Gene Smar]

Clare:

 

     Also many thanks.  I see that I must revise my PPT deck on squad radios that I deliver to local Ham venues to show the correct figure of 206,000+ SCR-536s produced in WW2.  Somewhere I had read this figure was 60,000.  

 

 

73 de

Gene Smar  AD3F

 

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Thanks Clare - That's the one.  An interesting Rabbit Hole to go down.  A tidbit:  we produced over 25 Billion rounds of 30-06 ammo....

 

Tim

N6CC

 

On Mon, Feb 15, 2021 at 1:34 PM Clare Owens <clare.owens at gmail.com <mailto:clare.owens at gmail.com> > wrote:

The file is at:

 

http://www.alternatewars.com/BBOW/Stats/USA_in_WW2_Stats-Procure_9-APR-52.PDF

 

Clare

 

On Mon, Feb 15, 2021 at 3:12 PM Tim <timsamm at gmail.com <mailto:timsamm at gmail.com> > wrote:

The Chief of Military History published a procurement and statistics document in 1952 detailing WWII procurements for the US Army.  It shows 206,753 SCR-536 radio sets procured from 1940-1945 inclusive...It did not detail the manufacturer(s).  It may take a little digging in a search engine to find it, sorry I don't have a good link...:

 

The United States Army WWII Statistics and Procurement, Crawford, Cook, Office of The Chief of Military History, 9 April 1952 

 

Tim

N6CC

 

On Mon, Feb 15, 2021 at 10:47 AM <k2cby at optonline.net <mailto:k2cby at optonline.net> > wrote:

While it is certainly possible to conclude that the units were numbered serially, starting from 00001, it seems more likely that, to avoid duplicating serial numbers, one contractor started from 20,000 and the other from 30,000. 

 

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