[Milsurplus] Re: HF/VHF Again (Was ".... Transmitter Dial)

[w8au at sssnet.com]

At 11:21 AM 7/9/2008, David Stinson wrote:

>----- Original Message -----
>>... he told me they practically never used HF !....
>
>I don't doubt you're vet's honesty;
>only his sixty-five-year-old memory,
>which is reflective of the last months of the war,
>and doubtless that's what he remembers.
>The Navy's own history and official documents say
>that VHF was not general or even widely available
>until *after* Leyte Gulf.

FWIW:  Smaller Navy ships did not have ANY gear
for Aircraft comms.  I know that LSTs did not get
Air Comm gear until after the war.  By Korea they
were adequately supplied.  (of course we know there
were always kluged-up exceptions to the general rule)

Perry   w8au