[Milsurplus] Mystery Radio APN-9 Honorable Mention

[Mike Hanz]

Mike Morrow wrote:
>> Mr. Chase  got extra points as he also identified the set as "post W.W. II 
>> which is correct.
>>     

I tried for extra points but was threatened with a Dishonorable Mention 
if I pursued my somewhat whimsical observations about the workbench 
supporting the mystery device, so I settled for second place. :-)

> But I have a flight instruction manual for the early B-29A and B that shows
> the AN/APN-9 installed (plus mentions the AN/ARR-1 used with the AN/ARN-7).
> I believe it was available very late in WWII.
>   

The one in the Enola Gay was installed at the Martin modification center 
before delivery to the USAAF in May of 1945, so the APN-9 was most 
certainly in the WWII production pipeline in the early spring of 1945, 
as Mike suggests.  The original installation was of course the APN-4.

73,
Mike/KC4TOS