[ARC5] BC-611 Production numbers

[Clare Owens]

I was telling my son Bill (N2RKL) about the production numbers yesterday
and he immediately began to Google.  He came up with:

3 platoons per WW II infantry company, with one SCR-536 per platoon plus
one for the company commander.

3 companies per regiment

3 regiments per brigade

3 brigades per division

90 infantry divisions

So, about 10,000 SCR-536 were issued at any time.

My wild guess is that the 206,000 figure was based on the possibility of
all out war in 1944, 45 and 46, if we had to invade Japan.  Then roughly
dividing thee production by 3 gives 60,000 per year and that implies to me
that the expected life of the radios in war service was about two months.
And considering how they are constructed and the 7 day 24 hour in any
possible weather use, two months sounds pretty generous to me.

What do you think?

73,

Clare  N2RJB

On Mon, Feb 15, 2021 at 11:05 PM Gene Smar <ersmar at verizon.net> wrote:

> Clare:
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>      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.
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> 73 de
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> Gene Smar  AD3F
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> *From:* arc5-bounces at mailman.qth.net [mailto:arc5-bounces at mailman.qth.net]
> *On Behalf Of *Tim
> *Sent:* Monday, February 15, 2021 4:56 PM
> *To:* Clare Owens <clare.owens at gmail.com>
> *Cc:* ARC-5 List <arc5 at mailman.qth.net>
> *Subject:* Re: [ARC5] BC-611 Production numbers
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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....
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> Tim
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> N6CC
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> On Mon, Feb 15, 2021 at 1:34 PM Clare Owens <clare.owens at gmail.com> wrote:
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> The file is at:
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> http://www.alternatewars.com/BBOW/Stats/USA_in_WW2_Stats-Procure_9-APR-52.PDF
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> Clare
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> On Mon, Feb 15, 2021 at 3:12 PM Tim <timsamm at gmail.com> wrote:
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> 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...:
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> *The United States Army WWII Statistics and Procurement*, Crawford, Cook,
> Office of The Chief of Military History, 9 April 1952
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> Tim
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> N6CC
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> On Mon, Feb 15, 2021 at 10:47 AM <k2cby at optonline.net> wrote:
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> 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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