[Milsurplus] SCR-536 for TD - Infantry comm

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1943.  The first attacks on the Westwall came two years later.  The root 
problem with the SCR-300 was that it could not talk to anything except another 
SCR-300.  That problem wasn't solved for another seven years.

The TD's didn't (normally) carry SCR-510.  That was an Armor Band Set.  
TD's, GMC's and Towed Artillery carried SCR-608 or SCR-610 (from late in North 
Africa on - prior to that they carried HF sets - which brings up the 
question of why they would have needed a Grunt with a Handie Talkie in 1942)

In a message dated 07/31/2011 23:25:03 PM Central Daylight Time, 
kargo_cult at msn.com writes: 
> "If, as will often be the case, a tank destroyer platoon is assigned to 
> furnish direct support
> to an assault platoon, the assault platoon should send an SCR-536 and 
> operator to the
> tank destroyer platoon during the operation......eliminating the necessity 
> 
> of transmission
> of the signal through intermediate or higher units."
> 
> This is from a planning manual for attack on the Westwall, date Sept. 
> 1942.
> The TDs and big gun carriages used for radio, SCR-510 or SCR-610.
> So when did the SCR-300 appear?  I suppose then it would have eliminated
> any need for the SCR-536 in the vehicle and infantry platoons, for 
> intercommunication?
> 
> 

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