The ARC-1 was quite late war, was it not? I wonder now what the earlier TBF carried for vhf. A TBF gunner who flew off the Gambier Bay, before it was sunk, told me they used vhf exclusively, hf only for practice exercises. I know the HF was ATC + ARB, but i never asked about the vhf.

Btw, i misidentified the paper tag attached to a 5 - 7 MHz ARC-5 transmitter i have; it says " F6F ".

-Hue Miller