[Milsurplus] Re: GB> I Beg Your Pardon. The Japanese DIDhave theProximi...

[David Stinson]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Glenn Little WB4UIV" <glennmaillist at bellsouth.net>


> When they closed the Navy base at Charleston SC, I tried to get some 
> manuals from their technical library. All manuals were shredded. They had 
> a guard at the door to ensure that no manual left. What a waste of 
> taxpayer money. This was all manuals classified or not. I suspect that 
> this happened on other bases also.

It wasn't just the bases.
During the Clintoon-the-First administration,
under orders to cleanze ourselves of our militaristic, baby-killer past,
the Navy made a phony "attempt" to archive records somewhere,
then pulped almost everything that was of any historic value.
Engineering records, notebooks, manuals- everything.
And don't give me the eye-roll;
I was there when they did the same thing to the
field operations of the nationa l labs.

The "first sources" for many pieces of gear are lost forever.
The only way were going to document the history of
the Navy radio technology of the time is through what ever
remains in private hands and fast-vanishing testimony.
D.S.