[Milsurplus] Radio in USMC Gun Motor Carriage 75mm M3

[Mike Morrow]

Hue wrote:

>( Maybe the oddest deployment of the RUGF was in some captured Japan
>aircraft brought back for testing. Monogram "Japanese Cockpit Interiors"
>Vols. 1 and 2 show some shots inside airframe where you can spot some
>of these rigs. ( Books may be out of print. ) I can't guess why in 1945/
>1946 the RUGF would have been chosen over some, for example one-
>box VHF, such as ARC-4.

I've got those books, purchased at the Air Force Museum bookstore 15 years
ago.  I was disappointed when I found that all pictures showing radio gear
showed US radios installed in the aircraft.  They all looked like SCR-183
radios to me.  It would make sense that a simple second-line radio would be
installed for use in this application.

I have another book with a picture of the radio/radar operator's cockpit in
a captured German night fighter that was being evaluated by the Allies.
Clearly evident among all the German radar gear is a complete
three-receiver, two transmitter SCR-274-N set.  I wonder why they went to
all the trouble of putting in a complete US radio set in an aircraft that
was used only for evaluation purposes.

Anyone know if the USMC may have used the Army's SCR-284 (BC-654) sets in
some of their mobile applications in WWII?

BTW, a couple of years ago the AF Museum was selling an interesting series
of books by Squadron/Signal Publications that showed a lot of interior
detail for many US vintage military aircraft, including excellent radio
operator position photos.  For example, the book for the PBY shows several
versions of the PBY with the GO-9, some earlier version of the GO, RU/GFs,
ARB *and* ATB, SCR-522 controls in the cockpit, LMs, etc.  The only lack was
that they did not identify the radio model numbers.

Mike / KK5F