[Milsurplus] Japan's Pearl Harbor Blunders

Peter Gottlieb nerd at verizon.net
Sun Feb 10 20:55:45 EST 2013


Perhaps one of their blunders was not realizing the importance of radio 
communications.


On 2/10/2013 7:47 PM, Hue Miller wrote:
> I am aware that some planes didn't have radios, maybe only the flight leader
> having a radio, and fighter pilots making use of hand signals, and fighter 
> pilots sometimes removing radios on their own, as useless weight (low
> powered single channel radios not unlike the Rangers we were talking about ), 
> but I would think for a mission this important, they'd see to
> radio communications. Maybe not.  -Hue
> -----Original Message----- From: Bruce Sent: Sunday, February 10, 2013 4:16 PM
> To: Hue Miller Subject: Re: [Milsurplus] Japan's Pearl Harbor Blunders
> Hello Hue,
>
> To save weight, many Japanese aircraft did not have any radios installed.
>
> 73, Bruce WA8TNC
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