[Milsurplus] 1950's Navy airborne HF question

[David Stinson]

I submit that all of these differing installations were, in fact, valid
and actual.  What's in the Erection manual is one thing.
What was available when they needed a radio in the aircraft
was something else.  They used what they could get at the time.
I would not be surprised to see a photo of SCR-274N receivers 
paired with a TA-12 in a Navy aircraft.
You can find on the web reports from Naval commanders
at Iwo Jima that contradict each other about what radios 
were doing what jobs.  I think it was a matter of personal 
perceptions at the time; one man sees an action from his 
ship, another man from his.  I just sent Gordon a period photo 
of a Wildcat with two "kill" marks which is equipped with
GF/RU, yet there are still people who insist that the 
Navy switched everyone to VHF just after the Titanic.
If they put MHF/VHF AN/ARC-5 in an aircraft in 1945, 
and they were still flying that aircraft in 1955,
I'd bet even money it would still have that AN/ARC-5 in it,
especially if it was a training or utility aircraft.
Ditto with an AN/ARC-1, etc.
73 Dave S.