[Milsurplus] TBF radio installation

Hue Miller kargo_cult at msn.com
Sun Nov 18 00:11:08 EST 2007


In "U.S. Carriers at War",  Peter Kilduff, 1981, page 61:
"TBF bomber's station, looking forward (Grumman Aerospace)"
shows on top of bulkhead (or wall or whatever? )  halfway up
the "tunnel", transmitter GP and to its right, receiver RU.
On the wall at left of view, RS-38 mic and receiver and ? 
transmitter control boxes, Also transmitter antenna load coil.
Also near where there is a padded sitting bench along the left
wall, above this are 3 RU coils affixed to the wall. 

Another photo of the cockpit up front has a RU coffee grinder
at about chest level on the right wall just below the canopy, but
i don't see any receiver control box for the pilot, at least in what
one can see of this view. Also no transmitter TU in view. I think
one former radio gunner told me ?someone? had to "hand them
up to the radio man".  -Hue Miller


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