[Milsurplus] World War II Radio Functions

[Hue Miller]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mark Richards" <mark.richards at massmicro.com>

> Hue Miller wrote:
> which they mistook for a station call letter, or some
> > code, and they mistreated some of the radio ops, trying to get 
> > them to spill what this Q signal meant. 

> Why is it called "mistreatment"?  Today, it's torture.
> 
> Maybe in comparison it was mistreatment then, but I rather doubt it.
> 
> Just curious...

Well, when the captors  wanted to really torture someone to break them
down, they didn't hold back. I didn't want to confuse simply being beaten,
the beaters being on more of an information fishing expedition, with actual
torture.  There was no equivalence with the treatment, for example, when a 
clandestine radio was found in a camp, disturbingly described in an account 
for example, in the book "Railway Man".  BTW after you read about the water
torture there, i suggest you might get an attitude about a "dip in the water"
treatment ( to cite a recent notorious quote ) for ANY captive.  -H M