[Milsurplus] Re: WW-II,The Signal Corps series and other books

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ECOM 4451,Nov 1976,History of the Squad Radio. (Hard to find)

I have this one.  Reprints $20.00 shipped CONUS.

U.S. Army in WW-II, which ran to nearly 100 volumes, was reprinted by Barnes 
and Noble in 1995 (not sure why).  I've found numerous volumes (mostly on the 
Combat Arms), but only one or two from the Technical Services and none of the 
three on the Signal Corps.  My copies of the three that Ralph mentioned are 
from the original printing, which gave the series the name many refer to it 
by, "The Green Books".  The reprints are not green.

Also missing from Ralph's list, and of considerably more value to the 
collector of WW-II US radio and other communications and test equipment are 
TM 11-487, SHIPS 275 (or the later NAVSHIPS 900,116) and two with no numbers, 
"Airborne Radio Equipment Handbook" and "VHF Fighter Control Equipment".  
Reprints available.

On Jap and German equipment, TM 30-450, TM-E 30-451 and TM-E 30-480 have 
chapters on signal equipment.  The latter two were reprinted by LSU Press in 
the early 90's (with forewords by Stephen F. Ambrose).

TM 11-487 had predecessors including TM 11-227 (there was also a TM-E 11-227 
on German equipment) on tactical radio sets, TM 11-223 on power equipment and 
maybe a few more that I've not come across.  Starting in 1950, TM 11-487 was 
broken up into separate volumes, tactical radios becoming TM 11-487A, etc.  
It was revised in the late 50's and again in 1964.  During this period, the 
various volumes also had other numbers assigned, such as MILHBK 161 (and 
other numbers), JANAP 161 (and other numbers) and a bunch of Navy and Air 
Force numbers that seem to have changed every month or so.

Sam Hevener did an excellent reprint of "U.S. AIRBORNE RADAR SETS" (no 
publication number).  Fair may stock these.  It is organized like TM 11-227 
was, rather than like TM 11-487.

Finally, TM 11-486 is a companion volume to TM 11-487, and covers things like 
construction practices, communications net organization, etc.  It was also 
split out into multiple volumes in the 50's.

73
Robert Downs
Houston
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