[Milsurplus] Question on USMC 1942 tactical radio gear

[Hue Miller]

My money's on the Pogo, SCR-511.  Too early for the SCR-536 ( BC-611 ) and SCR-300 
(BC-1000). SCR-194/ 195, um, i just don't think so. Altho we have ONE photo of the
SCR-194/ 195 being used by infantry in Italy, there's no evidence that i know of, of it
being used an any other combat theater. ( I realize you can't just rule it out because of
the superregen receiver and power-vfo oscillator and vhf frequency, because the sons
of Nihon strode the jungle with  walkie talkies with exactly those features. )  
I have seen at least one, maybe two photos of the SCR-511 / BC-745 / Guidon Set /
"Pogo Stick" in use in the Pacific islands war theater. Also that is was carried by
paratroops in the Pacific theater, i seem to recall that, altho it seems to me now that
the only US paratroop action of the Pacific War was much later, in the Philippines.

The ONLY photograph of the MAB ever being used, outside of the manual's photos,
is a shot of a GI reporter using it as a "broadcast remote" to interview GIs. Probably
other end of circuit was a disk recorder inside the quonset studio of Radio Manus or
some similar AFRS station.  

We DO know the SCR-511 WAS used in combat in N. Africa earlier in the same year.
Reference "The Battle is the Payoff"; otherwise a not real informative book, outside of
one or two memorable combat scenes. But there the radio was called "the 511 set".
"SCR" sounds like a real localized nickname for this, by maybe someone who was not
fully Radioman rated.  -Hue Miller