[Milsurplus] Common sense- Pappy's stories

[Hue Miller]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "James C Whartenby" <antqradio at juno.com>



> For the Japanese forces to communicate with US forces in WW2, all that
> would be need is a downed US aircraft with an intact radio.  Radar may
> have been scarce, and navigation equipment rare but almost all carried
> comm.  Also, by Boyington's accounts, training, bad weather and sloppy
> maintenance had a greater toll on both pilots and planes then enemy fire.
> Jim

Well, a captured US vhf radio would indeed serve them - were the frequencies
once set, used throughout the Pacific War - i don't know. However, the simplest,
most believable, i say most likely scene, is that these events were carried by HF,
because each side already had in place HF equipment, working and powerful 
enough to carry this off. -Hue