[Milsurplus] Foxhole Radio

[Hue Miller]

> General Rule: It only took one Razor Blade Radio,
> one War Correspondent, and one radio magazine
> in the States, to produce thousands of these radios.
> Clete

Great, Clete! ha ha ha....
I suspect the number actually built was, uh, more like
you could count on ONE hand, with fingers left over,
than "hundreds".
There's  somewhat of an odd paucity of first-person accounts, 
wouldn't you say, if hundreds were built?
On the other hand, there are at least several stories around,
describing one-tube radios built by WW2 soldiers. Even the prison
camp radios were one-tube jobs, using either a tube traded
from the guards - Europe, or stolen from the captors - Pacific.

I actually saw a Europe GI-built 5 - tube battery portable 
superhet receiver, used standard U.S. tubes. I have no idea
of when it was built, before end of war or after, but I suppose
afterward, it would have been easier to swap cigarettes or
whatever for a European factory built radio.

But, it IS another great war story, a classic like the "U-boats
homing on radio receivers", altho there's hardly a grain of
truth to the latter.
-Hue