[Milsurplus] Re: [ARC5] Re: ARC-5 production data

[J. Forster]

The Canadian Army did much the same thing. Much of the WS 19 documentation is
long gone, or only exists in 2nd, 3rd, or 4th generation copies. Too bad really.
I guess few thought that the stuff was worth preserving...  after all it was all
'obsolete'
-John

David Stinson wrote:

> Gordon White wrote:
>
>  >    Unfortunately, I learned when I tried to go back into the Signal
>  > Corps' and Navy archives that after I looked at a lot of the files they
>  > had been shredded. The federal Archives may (probably does) still have
>  > some of the Army stuff. I don't know if any Navy files survived....
>
> Almost nothing that was in the Navy archives from the very beginnings
> of Naval radio work up to the mid 1950s was saved.  They were bulk
> pulped in the mid 1990s because some little beaurocratic pinhead
> decided they weren't of any value and the National Archives
> wouldn't take them.  We have only what we can scrape together
> and the testimony of foggy and fast-disappearing memory.
> I have first-hand testimony of some fascinating "black project"
> work done with early A.R.C. sets pre-WWII, but now will probably
> never have any way to solidly prove the story, since such
> documentation could only have been in those archives.
> It's a pitiful disgrace.
> D.S.
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