[Milsurplus] Lighter than air, Navy ASW patrol

[J. Forster]

Do you have a link to the photo or a scan of it? Perhaps an ASB-x?

-John

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> And a photo in Radio News, ca. 1944 - 1945, showing in the radio position,
> 2
> ATC's
> with ARB receivers. And other stuff - a display unit of some kind - radar?
>
> Re RAK / RAL - I don't think they were that widely distributed. "Navy
> Retread" talks
> about only 1 or 2 type RAO on the Corvette. And I've not seen a pix of a
> carrier
> radio room, that seems to have more than at most a couple RAK / RAL.
> I suspect these were uniformly issued to subs as the receivers were simple
> and possibly less trouble prone, and easier to service if failed, in this
> restricted environment. I note that the subs also carried a  model RBS
> too.
> -Hue Miller
>
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