[Milsurplus] Mobile Repair Shops

[Hue Miller]

I talked to a vet once, don't remember name, who worked in radio 
maintenance.  He told me one
day the commanding officer said, "x, there's a knocked out German convoy on 
the road ahead.
Go and see if there's anything you can use". He found a Torn E.b. receiver, 
brought it back. They
used it to listen to baseball games from the States. When the war ended, for 
some reason he
found, or thought, it was too heavy to take back to the States with him, so 
he took it apart.

When there was no more Luftwaffe to shoot down, my father was moved from AAA 
to
a field optics repair unit. The trucks offered a much better place to sleep 
in the very cold
winter of '44 - '45, much better than the poor infantryman up front at 
Bastogne.

BTW, war stories. Tony Grogan told me he had a TBY in well-seasoned bag, 
that had been
shipped back from Pacific. He said that when the radioman was wounded,  and 
shipped out,
his buddies packed the radio and sent it back to his relatives. Anyone heard 
that, or know
about it?  Tnx-  Hue Miller