[Milsurplus] Military vehicle interiors

[Hue Miller]

What is hard for me to understand is the overall organization of say a
Pacific Island invasion during W.W.II? You have all these ships, vehicles,
men and equipment, yet I have asked before without reply if there was some
kind of parameters used in who communicated with whom and how messages were
routed. I can see why ships had so many radio rooms, what a logistical
nightmare. Is there some sort of manual or book on this issue?
Mark Tombleson

I certainly am not qualified to answer this.
I think the number of warship radio locations was
for battle redundancy.
Probably some of the pressure on the HF spectrum,
at least, was taken off by the fact that most tactical
communications was for daytime, so the low HF
sprectrum frequencies could be reused some miles
away.
*anecdote: i remember talking to one Navy vet,
who told me he was on a ship off Iwo, i believe it
was. He told me all ship crew were ordered to
remain below decks, but he snuck out to see
what was going on. He also said he listened to
the combat activities on Iwo over the ship's TCS.
He also told me one time his ship was launching
a target drone plane, for AA gun practice, this
was a large drone airplane that used something like
an ARW-9 receiver (don't recall exactly, i sold it
also), anyway the drone's engine was turning, but
it wouldn't launch off the catapault, some one of the
crew went up to check on why it wouldn't take off,
the drone suddenly launched, and that crew member
was never seen again.
Hue Miller
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