[Milsurplus] VHF or HF liason/command on Enola Gay ?

[jhaynes@alumni.uark.edu]

On Sat, 4 May 2002, Tino Zottola wrote:

> 2) According to Fred Chesson's very informative web
> site, the equipment listing on the Enola Gay contains
> no HF equipment what-so-ever. Only an ARC-3 VHF
> command setup is mentioned. No liason equipment is
> mentioned at all. Is this correct ? Does this list
> imply that when the Smithsonian received the Enola Gay
> this is what was present or is this what was present
> on Aug 6, 1945?
> 
However, all the books about the bombing mention that they sent a report
by radio of the effects/observations.  It was of the nature of filling in
a questionnaire, so it didn't have to be encrypted.  Sorry I don't have 
one at hand to cite right now.  This seems to imply they had HF and were 
in contact with their home base.