[Milsurplus] "The Pacific"

[Al Klase]

I'm with Jim on this one.  Entertainment and especially news are in 
demand in a situation like that.  Personal radios were nearly no 
existent.  You'd listen to whatever you could get working.  Midnight 
requisition  from a swabbie storeroom would not be out of the question.

Al

On 3/23/2010 12:14 AM, Jim Whartenby wrote:
> How about a salvaged ARB from a Navy aircraft crash site?
> Jim
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Hue Miller<kargo_cult at msn.com>
> To: milsurplus at mailman.qth.net
> Sent: Mon, March 22, 2010 10:53:05 PM
> Subject: [Milsurplus] "The Pacific"
>
>    
>> Tonight's part 2 of "The Pacific" had a scene on Guadalcanal that
>> showed Marines in the jungle listening to Tokyo Rose on an ARB
>> receiver.
>>
>> Unlikely!  Apparently the research in to the radio gear isn't
>> up to the standards used elsewhere in the production.
>>
>> Mike / KK5F
>>      
> We could say "impossible". 24 volts and control box cabling and a local
> control tuner would be tuff to come up with in the jungle.  Never thought
> about this particular issue before, but likely no gyrenes listened to
> Tokyo Rose unless stationed at some permanent base where they had
> access to communications receivers.  -Hue Miller
>
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Al Klase - N3FRQ
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