[Milsurplus] D Day Comm (continued)

[Joe Foley]

The Medal Of Honor list mentions one man who made
three trips out into the surf to retreive radios, got
killed on the third trip.

Joe



--- W7QHO at aol.com wrote:
> Browsing through one of the "Green Books" (The
> Signal Corps, The Outcome) this evening. I found
> specific reference to the use of the SCR-608 and
> SCR-610s (BC-659s) for ship-to-shore comms during
> the invasion of Sicily. Chapter cites the same use
> of SCR-509s there on both ship (LST) and shore. 
> 
> Moving on to D-Day, aparently a lot of radio
> equipment was to have come ashore with the early
> waves but very little made it.  The book mentions
> the 116th Infantry lost 3/4 of it's radio sets
> destroyed or waterlogged and the 293rd Joint Assult
> Signal Company lost half of it's equipment when a
> shell struck the landing craft 350 yards offshore. 
> The failure to get an SCR-193 ashore is cited as
> creating a gap in radio communications between beach
> and the VII Corps' headquarters ship, the USS
> Bayfield. Also found mention of a pair of BC-659s
> reaching the beach and being the only form of
> communication between a couple of elements there for
> a period before wire could be strung.  No menton of
> SCR-608/609 ship-to-shore use at Normandy found yet.
> Will keep looking.
> 
> Also found mention of an SCR-499 remodled to mount
> in a 1/4 ton trailer and successfully delivered
> inland in a glider on D-Day. (no mention of the
> generator, however.) The same chapter mentions
> radios being included in the equipmet bundles
> dropped with the troops.  Specific types not
> identified (the Green Books are frustrating in this
> respect) but certainly could have included SCR-509,
> 609, 284, 300, etc.
> 
>  
> Dennis D.  W7QHO
> Glendale, CA
> 
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