[Milsurplus] D Day Comm

[David Stinson]

> ... Regardless of what we think today about the
>typical performance of the BC-611.  Until  D+1 when the Glider Troops came
in, the
>airborne had no vehicles (or at least they didn't jump with any).  So I
don't
>see how they could have had anything else other than BC-611's on D-Day.

There is photographic of them with the BC-611,
 not to mention the BC-721 in the gliders.
Remember that we're talking about people standing on cliffs talking
across a relatively short expanse of salt water; I think it could have
worked fine, given a QRM-less environment.  Somewhere in a dusty
library is a document showing the communication plan for D-Day.
We'll find it one day and put all this to rest.
73 Dave S.