[Milsurplus] Dating the term "Walkie Talkie"

[Hue Miller]

I see in ELECTRONICS magazine, March 1941, page 80, a small photo of a
US Army trooper, in one of those pre-war wide-brimmed cloth field hats,
and wearing a SCR-195/ BC-322 ( i assume because of the telephone type
handset, instead of BC-222's handmic and headphones ), captioned:

"This portable radio communication outfit used at Fort Ord, California, to keep
commander and troops in communication, has been dubbed the 'walkie talkie'.
Complete station is light enough for one soldier to carry and has a range of 5 
miles".

My comments: I am still thinking i have seen an earlier appearance of this term,
in an official US Army publication, in the late 1930s. ( The SCR-194/ 195 sets
date from about 1938. ) I will keep looking for such reference.
The date of publication of this magazine number is about the same time, Norman
Weed, i think it was, told me he was using a SCR-194 at Ft. Ord and talked to
some other soldier also using an SCR-194, but at Ft. Monmouth, New Jersery,
on the East Coast USA. That's a pretty good haul for a 2-tube backpack portable
with a whip antenna.
Ft. Ord was a pretty nice base. I lived there for a while as a youngster. I remember
the banana-like "ice plant" grown on  slopes,  to secure loose sandy soil, sliding on 
them and having my pants stained green; straining my eyes to see surfacing submarines
off Monterey bay, the hollow distant drumming from the machine gun practice ranges,
and a climate that was  near perfect. Its own self contained and self-complete world.
Of course, that base is all closed now.
Hue Miller