[Milsurplus] Re: British Army Radio During WWII

Joe Foley [email protected]
Fri, 23 May 2003 16:38:26 -0700 (PDT)


Hmm,...

You didn't consider the availability of trained,
capable, repair technicians.  

Operators would be one thing, operators who knew what
they were doing outside of the manual were another.

Joe





--- [email protected] wrote:
> 
> In a message dated 5/23/03 6:23:55 AM,
> [email protected] writes (in part):
> 
> 
> > ..........throughout the book, Frost makes
> reference to the continuous, 
> > routine disastrous failures of British Army radio
> equipment from the very 
> > earliest stages of the war. He makes it clear that
> British senior officers had to 
> > be constantly on top of the Signals service to get
> any useful radio support 
> > out of them during a campaign.
> > 
> Interesting.   
> 
> A significant number of British WS(*) equipments
> have been exhibited at the 
> MRCG meetings over the years.   The stuff certainly
> has a different look and 
> feel as compared to our gear of the same period and
> I've wondered how well it 
> actually worked under wartime conditions.   One
> writer in ER a number of years 
> ago characterized the design philosophy as being
> "just good enough" as opposed 
> to the "every radio a Cadillac" view on our side.  
> Maybe "just good enough" 
> wasn't good enough.......
> 
> Also, wonder if the shortcomings were primarily
> techincal or organizational?
> 
> In reading the memoirs and biographies of our
> generals (Eisenhower, Bradley, 
> Stillwell,   etc.) I've been struck by the fact that
> communications matters, 
> good and/or bad, never seem to come up.   Bradley
> was known to prefer the 
> telephone, but apparently our stuff worked well
> enough that comms were not an 
> issue, at least looking down from the top.
> 
> Sounds like a very interesting   book.   Will see if
> I can find a copy.
> 
> Dennis D.   W7QHO
> Glendale, CA
> 
> 
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