[ARC5] BC-611 Production numbers

[Tim]

Hi Clare - I like your and your son's thinking!  ... Maybe another factor
of 3 involved in very rough estimates?  3 Companies per Battalion, 3
Battalions per Regiment.......
I dunno, I'm just a Navy puke....  ;o)

A truly monumental effort by any measure...
Tim
N6CC

On Tue, Feb 16, 2021 at 1:00 PM Clare Owens <clare.owens at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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:
>>
>>
>>
>>      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
>>
>> 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
>>
>>
>>
>> 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
>>
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>>
>> On Mon, Feb 15, 2021 at 1:34 PM Clare Owens <clare.owens at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> 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:
>>
>> 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
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>> On Mon, Feb 15, 2021 at 10:47 AM <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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