[Milsurplus] Latter-Dig of 'Great Escape' Tunnels Humbles

[Bruce Gentry]

"The Great Escape" is probably my favorite WWII movie.  I saw it when 
it  was first relaesed while I was in middle school, and because of my 
personal situation, identified strongly with it.   The foxhole radio  
and other improvisational articles in magazines were surely aimed at 
15-16 year olds who would likely be in the service in a year or two. The 
public library then and there had Popular Mechanics and Popular Science 
from the late 1930s onward in bound volumes. I would read them 
endlessly, and used many of the project plans to build radios and sound 
equipment from trashed equipment I could scrounge, sneak into the house, 
and hide.

      Bruce Gentry,  KA2IVY
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> On 1/16/2012 2:13 PM, Robert Nickels wrote:
>   
>> On 1/16/2012 12:34 PM, ka8vit at ka8vit.com wrote:
>>     
>>> On a similar note, here is a Foxhole Radio I built a number of year ago.
>>>       
>> Very cool, Bill.    I made a number of them as a kid, got me out of
>> writing more than one science report ;-)
>>
>> I've uploaded the article where I learned about them from a 1945 book
>> published by Popular Science called "Boys Fun Book", and you can read
>> it, including some history about the Foxhole Radio, here:
>> *http://tinyurl.com/6vqds5n
>>
>> *The neatest thing about this book is that is printed on very thin
>> paper, and a note inside states that it's a special wartime edition,
>> that is in compliance with government regulations regarding conservation
>> of paper.
>>
>> 73 Bob W9RAN
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