[ARC5] Command Sets for Longer Range?

[Hubert Miller]

The F6F used for 'scout' had to be just around island areas, right? I mean, these aircraft did not have long range 
radio. For ASW search and for locating enemy battle groups, you would need longer range HF. The TBF/ TBM was
used for both attack bomber and long range patrols. A WWII carrier flyer years ago told me he/ they "never used HF 
except to practice CW", but maybe he never went out on the longer searches. ( I recall another flyer telling me about
how flyers forgot to reel in the trailing wire and it would rip off on landing. I wish now i had asked more questions 
and gotten actual dates / locations where possible. ) 
I mentioned here that this past year i bought an ARC-5 transmitter, i think the 5 - 7, with a condition tag attached;
the tag said "for F6F". This was an official inventory tag, not someone's thought. 

This same flyer, who was on the 'Gambier Bay' until it was sunk, told me working from a Philippine base, one of the
pilots had to flight check-out a TBM that had been repaired. For this routine flight, he offered a cook a chance to go
up in a plane, get a little thrill, something different. Unfortunately during the flight, one of the wings came off. There 
were a whole lot of accidents. It came to me just now, the radio - gunner who told me this was Donald R. Blaney of 
Seattle, gone now i am certain.
-Hue Miller