[Milsurplus] Question on USMC 1942 tactical radio gear

[Mike Morrow]

I've been reading a 2002-published book called "Into the Rising Sun," which is full of the recollections of veterans of the WWII Pacific ground/jungle war.  One veteran of the USMC 1st Raider Battalion refers, while describing action in August 1942 at Guadalcanal, to using his "SCR."   He describes how the enemy used a "SCR" captured from another company to send misleading signals.  The veteran also refers to someone handing him the "SCR."

What would be a good guess for the actual set that was in use?  It almost sounds like a SCR-536 (BC-611), but did the USMC use the BC-611, especially in 1942?  I suppose I tend to think of the TBY as the USMC's tactical radio set in that era, but why would that be referred to as the "SCR?"  The SCR-194 or -195 seem unlikely.

Mike / KK5F