[Milsurplus] easly-40s USArmy electro-history

[Marty R's GI-stuff haunt]

Was: [Milsurplus] Enigma .... not THAT one !

To those who feel the real mission here is location of depot spares,
this is a digression, delete quick.

Pete there was a 3 volume hardbound series done here 45 years+ back.

The US Army in WW2
   The Technical Series
      The Signal Corps 
          from the archives staff

  -vol 1:  the emergency (thru mid-'41)
       2:  the test (thru late '43)
       3:  the outcome  ( to the end / US Lib. of Congress 56-60003)

Each about 600 pages long.  Some distrust 'em &  believe literary license 
is taken.

For example where else could you find that Majestic & Zenith managed 1st
post-6/6/44 continental electronic producion in Belgium in 11/44?  And 
set made was R100 morale job?  100,000+!

And stuff on units "going vhf early" with WE232 set later called ARC-4

And USAAF "going around the system" & ordering JT350s early on for
forward North African airbases.

Anyway, I've got vol.s 2 & 3 & love 'em.  

Have never found V1 DURNIT.  Hear it writes up largest ever 4-div'n 
field exercise in Mississipi & AL in early '41.*  That's where, among
things, FM sank AM for field use.

It's not like we didn't know it was coming.


   Marty

*British did 'live test' @ Dieppe Belgium in '42.  Actually went ashore
 to get a Wurzburg radar & test defenses - Jerry had to ride cross-
 country on bikes & blew all their tires on stone roads!  See "Operation
 Green Beach"