[Milsurplus] Milsurplus Digest, Vol 98, Issue 10

[Bry Carling]

No initial testing? Gee, we can't have that!

> From: Jack Sullivan <wa1tej at yahoo.com>

> I've sat through the first 4-5 episodes of this series (Netflix via
> Roku)
> & have been disapointed at the very superficial treatment of
> the?technical
> aspects. I saw nothing on what must have been intensive?CW?&
> crypto
> training, code books, etc. Repairing their radio sets was shown as
> unscrewing a fastener on monster hulking desktop sets rather than
> the
> clandestine sets they would use in the field, with no initial
> testing or
> diagnosis of the undefined problem. The few shots of the actual
> suitcase
> sets were from the side & showed no detail. They have an
> impressive
> collection of these at the Imperial War Museum in London &
> Duxford?that
> likely could have been made available on loan to the producers.
> ?
> Jack