[Milsurplus] WWII Facsmile

[Nick England]

FWIW, I think the Navy was using AN/TXC-1 at this point too.

1944 - Facsimile (radiophoto) facilities are available at Naval
Communications at
Washington, D.C., San Francisco, Pearl Harbor and Guam.

1945 - Pictorial coverage of the Japanese surrender ceremony is
transmitted from USS
MISSOURI, in Tokyo Bay, to Washington, D.C., by radiophoto mobile unit
(facsimile). The U.S. received the pictures within an hour and forty
minutes from
the time they were taken at the ceremony.

On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 12:17 PM, Al Klase <al at ar88.net> wrote:
> Thanks, Robert,
>
> The Signal Corps history book says they used fax to send recent aerial
> recon photos to Omaha Beach from England via VHF radio relay (possibly
> AN/TRC-1) on the Isle of Wight as early as D+2.  I'm trying to determine
> what equipment was used.
>