[Milsurplus] Re: Late version of BC-366

[Hue Miller]

I'm not really convinced there was that much aviation radio traffic for the big planes
in bombing missions. Sure, back in the states, or maybe transocean utility flights,
or regularly scheduled ASW patrols, you would have the half hourly position reports.
But on bomber missions, it was radio silence, or the flight leader ( or whatever he
was called ) communicating back to base, if at all, right? For airfield approach, of
course the individual aircraft used its own radio, whether VHF or HF.
I read one bomber crew account, ETO, where the pilot even admonished the crew
to stay off the interphone unless really necessary. I presume the thinking was that
chit chat might distract them from watching out for dangers. -Hue Miller