[Milsurplus] Subject: Re: RAX-1 Contract Information

[J. Forster]

In the air-sea rescue chart (SEE LINK) one listed option is "walrus".

What was that, please?

-John

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> Both John Forster and Hue have it right, I think.  Given the USAAF
> penchant for applying OA (Operations Analysis) mathematical techniques
> to everything under the sun, I am sure that the march of airfield
> navigation aids followed the maximum reach of Japanese bombers fairly
> closely, at least once the Japanese were in retreat mode.  I may have
> been the one who sent Hue a copy of that set of documents - I recall
> making some complete copies for a couple of folks.  It had a radio log
> for a flight from Hawaii to places in the South Pacific, and it did
> indeed have both beacon and radio range frequencies for most of the
> war's backwater airfields that were beyond the range of Japanese bombers
> in 1945.  I haven't found the entire document yet, but I did post the
> instructions for ferry flights to Guam, including a couple of charts, at
> http://aafradio.org/sidebar/Ferry.pdf  There are numerous references to
> 500kHz and navigation frequencies.
>
> Be aware that the file is 4 MB, so it will take a while to load at low
> bandwidths.
>
> 73,
> Mike
>
> On 11/3/2010 1:21 AM, Mike Morrow wrote:
>> Hue wrote:
>>
>>> I must comment that  it appears from a 1945 Pacific Air Facilities
>>> booklet I
>>> have, that practically every island and large landmass airfield alike,
>>> had
>>> LF and MF services, most often both homing and range stations.
>> Hue,
>>
>> The date you cite (1945) is problematic, and critical.  Is it AFTER the
>> cessation
>> of hostilites?
>>
>> It is hard to imagine that DURING the war the Pacific islands hummed
>> with hundreds
>> of beacon and broadcast band transmitters blithely broadcasting a homing
>> signal to friend and foe alike.  (Please excuse the alliteration.)
>>
>> I must be mis-interpreting your information.
>>
>> Mike / KK5F
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