[Milsurplus] Milsurplus Digest, Vol 71, Issue 39

[Al Klase]

Hue,  We you ever in the military? - Al

On 3/24/2010 4:23 AM, Hue Miller wrote:
>> How about a salvaged ARB from a Navy aircraft crash site?
>> Jim
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>> 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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>> 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
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> My comment on above: Nonsense! Your fantasy! The gyrene grunts are going to
> come
> up with 2 vehicle batteries, just happened to by lying around? They raided
> an airfield
> repair shop? Right! Raid to steal clothes or food, fuel or tools, anything.
> But wouldn't
> you think an  aircraft part might be pretty valuable at this time?
>
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>> Being too cheap to buy the HBO or Showtime packages from direct TV I will
>> just have to wait the six months or so till the series shows up on History
>> channel. So can not speculate on anything about the radios on "Pacific",
>> but do have a question about availability of radio equipment for the MEF
>> on Guadalcanal. What would have used for the field operations for that
>> period of time? Would it have been a Navy TBW? Had to be something better
>> than a TBX. Maybe something like TBX/ MAB or DAV for short range and TBW
>> for long range? Was the MAB and DAV ever used in a combat role? Understand
>> that at Tarawa the TBX and TBY failed miserably and the jeep mounted TCS
>> proved to be most useful. How were you supposed to net a TBX and a TBY in
>> the first place?
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>> Also I have seen this story several times, this is from:
>> http://www.acepilots.com/usmc/hist8.html although I have seen this
>> referred to several other places too.
>> "On August 12, the field had 3,800 usable feet, 400 drums of aviation
>> gasoline, and a captured Japanese radio which was used to transmit a
>> message that the field was "ready to receive fighters and dive-bombers."
>> At this point, it was found that the transports bringing VMF-223 and
>> VMSB-232 were being held up at Suva because of the action on the 8th. "
>> Or from:
>> http://www.microworks.net/PACIFIC/intelligence/allied_offensive.htm
>> "On 15 September, Chief Radioman James J, Perkins and RM3/c Joe Jilson set
>> up a High Frequency Direction Finder (HFDF) on Guadalcanal as the first
>> increment of Station AL.  A captured Japanese transmitter was used to
>> transmit bearings to NIT, the net control of the Strategic Pacific HFDF
>> Net at FRUPAC in Hawaii, In addition to targets "flashed" by net control,
>> bearings on local Japanese targets in the Solomons and New Britain were
>> passed to local intelligence officers.  The only open space available was
>> on the Northwest corner of Bloody Ridge just after the 13 September battle
>> there."
>> What was the Japanese equipment that was used and for how long? Would
>> assume by the time the Army moved in they brought SCR-299 or 399 with
>> them.
>> Ray Fantini
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>> In one of the 1945 (or maybe even 1944, forgot which month)there is an
>> article with photos describing putting into service some Japanese high
>> power HF transmitters which were found at the Japanese base after the
>> island was taken by US forces. I'm not sure what island the article is
>> dealing with, without looking again at the article.
>> I have to dig into my WW2 issues of QST find the article.
>> Even if the transmitters described were on another island, it'd be
>> reasonable to think that the affair was similar on Guadalcanal, and
>> possibly the same model Japanese transmitters involved.
>>
>> 73, Meir WF2U
>> Landrum, SC
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> I'm not familiar with the QST article but possibly Radio News had the same
> photos. Also I think one of the "Historical Division" monographs
> on the campaign showed the receiving equipment at receiver building which
> was abandoned intact ( along with copious supplies of all
> kinds. ) The receiver pictured, if you have the TM-11-227-E ( is that the
> right manual number, catalog of (some ) Japanese equipment ? )
> shows "Special Receiver 92", very large unit with numerous plug in coils.
> The same manual shows 3 or so large transmitters, CW models,
> and you could bet this would be the transmitter used with the 92. One
> similar transmitter was found in later years still in a tunnel
> under Rabaul city and AFAIK is still there.  The same 92 receiver can be
> seen at ChiChi Jima radio station in a photo in the fascinating
> -and harrowing - account in the book "Flyboys".  The 92, you could think of
> it equating to "M1932" in our way of nomenclaturing, and
> from that you can understand its apparent ancient cumbersome design.
> I have also seen photo, also in Radio News, I think, of US troops listening
> on a captured Japanese receiver (not the 92, but a
> regenerative one, I think - also had a real nice speaker with a Japan Navy
> anchor design on it. )
> I just the other day came across some published photos of the ChiChi Jima
> radio station building - still structurally intact - and the
> large metal tower antenna, which has been felled and slopes down the steep
> hillside to the ocean - still very impressive appearing.
> -Hue Miller
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Al Klase - N3FRQ
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