[Milsurplus] Foxhole Radio

[Hue Miller]

I have somewhere on the other computer, one with its belly pointing up, an 
article someone in the Pacific War
theater wrote. Very detailed instructions on how to build. Maybe some of you 
remember that article, or did
its links appear here? I suspect it was more of a diversion, than a 
necessity, there, though.

BTW, for actual POW radios, I have only read of ONE that was a crystal type 
radio - that was TOTALLY scratch
built including the headphone, by an officer (maybe General?? ) imprisoned 
at Shanghai WW2.
Two interesting books on experiences with Pacific War POW radio are "Railway 
Man" and "Prisoner of the
Japanese". The latter book[s author  states in his opinion,  DOZENS of POW 
radios were working among the
Burma railroad building slaves, but after one radio was discovered, with 
predictable result, almost all of those
radios were discarded by their owners.
Latter book also has very interesting numbers on differential survival rates 
among nationalities.  Surprise -
the nationality most adept at "slacking" and most viewed as "lazy and weak" 
by their captors,  were actually
the  most survival-savvy and had the highest survival rate. That is the 
Dutch colonials.
-Hue Miller