[Milsurplus] World War II Radio Functions

[Hue Miller]

I don't think any GI POWs would dare sabotage a truck, radio, or whatever
so it failed the first time it was tried. I have read however, that the employment
in Japanese repair shops gave them an opportunity to get vacuum tubes, parts,
and batteries. Also- repairs were temporized so that a return call to the repair 
shops would occur in a short time.  I  was just reading the TIME-LIFE series
book on "Prisoners of War" last night ( extremely interesting ) , and they described
POWs volunteering for the hard work of stevedoring at Philippine ports: "Crates 
and boxes of radio gear and electrical equipment slashed or smashed by cargo
hooks and mishandling, rice bags ripped open when loaded, oil drums opened 
and drained in the harbor..." I also recall Corrie Ten Boom's account of being in a
German concentration camp factory, and inmates making purposeful wiring mistakes
on the aircraft radio equipment they were building. Also i saw in a recent aviation
magazine here, article about a German jet at the Smithsonian, maintenance work
recently found a rock jammed somewhere in the fuselage where it would get loose
and plug up a control cable operation, something like that.  -Hue