[Milsurplus] Re: RS-6

[Hue Miller]

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From:  <polepeeg@aa4rm.ba-watch.org>
To: <kargo_cult@msn.com>
Sent: Sunday, August 31, 2003 7:52 PM
Subject: Re: RS-6


> > RS-6 qualifies as... Operation Armageddon's use
> 
> Well there's a new one on me Hue.
> 
> I'm hardly an  RS6 expert.  But I do have a bagged set that was one
> in a pile dispensed thru MARS @ SAC Colo. Springs in '63.  Recipient was
> still-living PR director.  Bags went in B36, 45, 47, 52 bomb bay sides
> lashed to a survival boat.  Besides rations & radio, there were gabardine 
> rain coats to blend in w. E. Europeans!
> 
> But do tell me more re Operation Armageddon!  U referenced a RS-6 art'l
> once & I bet that's where this turned up.... and I've yet to see
> that write-up

The Operation Armegeddon story is from the (yet to be copied)
article in Air Classics magazine. This was the training program to
train rescue crews to be able to land on grass fields to pick up
stranded bomber crews overseas, who had radioed for help using
the RS-6 radio. If i recall, the training was mostly, maybe entirely,
in Colorado. Pretty imaginative idea, i don't know how entirely
realistic...

BTW, i do not think the production figure is anywhere near 8000.
As i said before, it would be perfectly in keeping with other
clandestine equipment serial number practice, that the serial
numbers were not strictly numerical! So you cannot simply go
by the highest serial number.
 
> Magnusson / WA.  I confess B-S!  I pulled the campaign extortion
> name completely outa the sky.  But I DO suspect it was the basis for
> the huge order on those goofy little tweaky things.  An order that, like
> Village Radios, went right around Ft. Monmouth / Ft. Gordon.  Real ref.
> on that fm W4MEW.

What's with the village radios? They did serve a purpose, right?
I'm sure there was some production overrun, but that's also par for
the course, right?
Hue