[Milsurplus] Fwd: WWII Mobile Control Tower at Malang

[Mike Hanz]

It's a good question, George.  I'm not sure it is answerable in a 
generic sense, considering the title of the book she referenced: "They 
fought with what they had".  That could be anything, I 
suppose...Chevrolet, Dodge, you name it.  I thought someone on the list 
might have a glimmer based on the location and time frame.  The only 
flaw in her story seems to be the use of the"communications command set 
with CW transmitter" which would have been HF, and everyone knows there 
wasn't any US HF aircraft command set operations left by 1942 since 
everything had moved to VHF....
<huge grin>

On 10/27/2010 9:27 PM, gl4d21a at juno.com wrote:
> Were there other panel trucks in WW2 besides the ubiquitous Dodge?  In films, they show up as ambulances, radio trucks, and ammo carriers to name a few uses.  Next thing up were six-bys and half-tracks, right?
>
> 73,
> George
> W5VPQ
>
> ---------- Original Message ----------
> From: Mike Hanz<aaf-radio-1 at aafradio.org>
> To: Milsurplus at mailman.qth.net
> Cc: WA5CAB at cs.com
> Subject: Re: [Milsurplus] Fwd: WWII Mobile Control Tower at Malang
> Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2010 21:11:26 -0400
>
> On 10/27/2010 6:26 PM, WA5CAB at cs.com wrote:
>> Where are Malang and Jogjakarta?
> // Malang is the second largest city in East Java province, Indonesia.
> Jogjakarta City (also Jogja, Yogya, Jogjakarta) is a city in the
> Yogyakarta Special Region, Indonesia.
>
> Why do you ask?  Did they use a different type of panel truck in
> Indonesia? :-)
>
> Just teasing,
> Mike
>