[Milsurplus] RBZ vs RBZ Special? Info From A Complete RBZ Special Manual - Addition

[Mike Morrow]

I wrote of the RBZ (Special) Instruction Book:

> However, there should also be a printed 24-page supplement dated March 27,
> glued into the front, and a blank "Unsatisfactory Equipment Report" War
> Department form folded with the manual.  The schematic should show an
> unlabeled resistor added in parallel with R5, and a note stamped stating:
> "R5 IS SHUNTED WITH A 100,000 OHM RESISTOR".

That date in line one should be "March 27, 1945".

If one is to infer anything from that date, it might be that few of these
had time to make it to ETO POW camps before the European Theater war ended.
But there is one of these shown in a display related to ETO POWs at the
USAF Museum in Dayton. (See http://www.nmusafvirtualtour.com/full/tour-std.html
and click "World War II - 033" on the navigation map to find the RBZ (Special)
in one of the glass display cases against the wall.)

Mike / KK5F