[ARC5] Lend-Lease & SCR-274N

[Mark K3MSB]

On some fighter aircraft, such as the P-47 and F-6F, the components were
distributed throughout the aircraft.

On Fri, Dec 5, 2025 at 5:42 PM MARK DORNEY via ARC5 <arc5 at mailman.qth.net>
wrote:

> SCR-274-N is a lot of radio to pack into the rear fuselage of a P-39
> Aircobra. Possible, but it’s a lot to stuff in the rear of a single engine
> fighter.
>
> Mark D.
> WW2RDO
>
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> stand like a rock. “.   -   Thomas Jefferson
>
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> On Dec 5, 2025, at 4:55 PM, Doran Platt via ARC5 <arc5 at mailman.qth.net>
> wrote:
>
> 
> Interesting. In probably 1957 or such, a fellow student received materials
> from the Soviet Embassy in DC, requested for a geography class report. (
> yes, apparently there was a call from the FBI).  Anyway, there was a photo
> in one of the magazines of some Russian students engaged in radio. There
> was an ARC-5 (sic) TX with a strange mic seemingly attached to it. No
> modulator, no receiver. Propaganda, obvious. So, guess they did have some
> of that stuff.
> Jeep K3HVG
>
> On 12/05/2025 11:57 AM EST Dave Merrill <r390a.urr at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> Good Day Group,
>
> Lately, I've been curious about Lend-Lease materiel supplied to the Soviet
> Union during WWII. Over 425,000 vehicles, mostly 2-1/2 ton trucks,
> arrived and were essential for logistics support. If Napoleon had access to
> ten-wheel drive trucks (and gasoline) we might be living in a
> different world, but that's another story.
>
> Eventually I got to the Bell Airacobra P-39 which found great success with
> Soviet pilots and accounted for more Luftwaffe kills than any other
> US-built aircraft on the Eastern front. Pilots were impressed with the
> radio equipment, which as far as I can tell was the SCR-274N.  I wonder how
> many sets wound up in Russian ham shacks after the war?
>
> --... ...-- Dave N9ZC
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