[Milsurplus] Holiday Puzzle

[J. Forster]

Probably true, but remember that Korea started up a very few years after
WW II. There were millions of tons of WW II stuff just sitting in depots
all over the world.

Also, the WW II stuff was battle proven, there were trained operators and
repair folks and lots spare parts.

Finally, there were no REAL technology quantum leaps in those years, not
like the transition from tubes to transistors a decade later.

Best,
-John

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> My father told me about this when he was in right at the start of WWII.
> The books *say* you should have all these neat-o,
> pork-barrel project radios, but they don't really arrive until
> most of the party is over.  You end up using what you can get,
> which is usually left-overs from the last shin-dig.