[Milsurplus] Question for our UK and Australian Friends

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All,

A number of us here in the US have been curious about the radios used  
by the 5307th Composite Group (Provisional), popularly known as  
"Merrill's Marauders" in their operations in Northern Burma,  
1943-1944.  In a book "The Marauders" by Carlton Ogburn, Jr. the  
familiar SCR-300, SCR-536 and SCR-284 radios are listed but the author  
(and other sources) also list an AN/PRC-1 "long range" radio used to  
communicate with Marauders' home base at Dinjan in Northern India.   
Distances of between 100 and 200 miles would have been involved here  
over the course of the 1943 campaign.  Ogburn describes the set as  
being powered by hand cranked generators that were strenuous to  
operate.  Discussions with Marauders veterans at the Marauders website  
<http://www.marauder.org/> further describe the radio as a multi  
component unit mounted in metal boxes with lids and "rounded corners."

The mystery here is that the only equipment in the US inventory at  
that time carrying the PRC-1 designator or anything close to it was a  
suitcase spy radio used by the OSS that doesn't come close to matching  
that description (or being suitable for that mission).

Question: Does the above description of the "PRC-1" sound like  
anything in the UK or Australian inventories of that period.   
Something Wingate might have used in his earlier operations in that  
theater for ex?

Any information would be much appreciated.

Dennis DuVall  W7QHO  (ex G5BSW, DA1IN)
Glendale, CA