[Milsurplus] WWII Japanese VHF?

[Hue Miller]

Dan, methinks you're kinda missing my point.
What i want to see is some interview with the Japanese pilots from island bases,
where they say, "Well, we were all going to sit this one out, but when we heard 
Pappy's insults over our radio, we got all riled up and decided we just weren't going 
to take it anymore,  so we all ran out and jumped in our Zeros."

BTW, i recalled that Hans Rudel, in his book "Stuka Pilot", mentions on the
Eastfront hearing Russian ground-air fighter direction communications over
his aircraft's radio. I tend to believe this account, because the Stuka radio, at 
least the early model radio was the FuG3, which was a TRF, and it wasn't totally 
unheard of for some Germans and Russians to be familiar with each other's
language.  ( There are some certain claims by Rudel i rather disbelieve as
improbable. Altho the man had a big ego, that was probably proprortional
to his works, and he seems to have been an almost superhuman warrior. If i
recall, he in his Stuka destroyed over 200 Russian tanks. )
-Hue Miller
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dan Cox" <tacquire at earthlink.net>
To: "Hue Miller" <kargo_cult at msn.com>
: Re: [Milsurplus] WWII Japanese VHF?


> I've seen interviews with his fellow pilots on the history channel, they 
> said he did it so I believe 'em.
> 
> Hue Miller wrote:
> >> From: "Todd, KA1KAQ" <ka1kaq at gmail.com>
> >> Reply-To: "Todd, KA1KAQ" <ka1kaq at gmail.com>
> >> Another thing to keep in mind are the stories of Pappy taunting the
> >> Japanese into coming up for a fight when he flew over their fields, by
> >> calling them over the radio. For the longest time I thought this was
> >> just hype from the TV series, but recently saw a program with several
> >> members of his squadron relating stories. One story was of Pappy
> >> calling them to come up and fight, with them obliging. So if you can
> >> determine what gear they were using in his squadron, you can at least
> >> determine with some certainty if they had and used VHF. Considering
> >> the size of the gear and limited space of the fighters, it seems
> >> unlikely they carried a lot of mixed gear.
> >> ~ Todd,  KA1KAQ
> >
> >
> > Todd, the problem i see with this is, we don't know whether they came 
> > up because
> > their manhood was challenged by his radio taunts, or whether they just 
> > came up
> > to attack because it was their job anyway. This sounds a bit too 
> > movie-like, not
> > him making taunts, but an actual "A causes B" response to it. Sounds 
> > like a John
> > Wayne movie. -Hue