[Milsurplus] OSS in Burma

[Hue Miller]

Looking at the photos in "Behind Japanese Lines - With the OSS in
Burma", Richard Dunlop, 1979, it appears to me:

1- radio is built into a wood box, approximate size of an opened
hardback book, maybe a couple inches longer; about 6 inches deep,
and looks unpainted

2- Handcrank gen looks like GN-45 part of Army SCR-284 radio set,
but - as book describes -  radios were built from parts of disassembled
V-100 radios supplied to China ( and Russia ), which was quite like
the SCR-284 but used an 807 in the final instead of instant-heating
2E22, a much less common tube. The V-100 and BC-654/ SCR-284
were judged way too heavy for small groups always on the run.

3- Photo shows young Kachin men in radio shop; apparently building
radios, as I see in the photo parts boxes with Stancor and National
markings. The unit a fellow is working on, has an old late-1920s
style vernier drive; simple U-shaped chassis attached to front panel;
front panel appears to have only tuning and two additional controls,
and two headphone jacks; antenna? connections on upper right.
This would have to be a regenerative receiver; probably 2 or 3
tube.

4- Another photo of set in operation seems to have 2 antenna
wires coming off set. This suggests to me, as with some other
'clandestine' radios I am familiar with - no changeover T-R relay,
instead separate antennas. Also, because of where I see the
receiver antenna connection, it appears in the wood box, the
receiver is at top. Bad technical practice - due to heat rising
from the transmitter - but it has been seen before, is hardly 
the rare example of this. 

British operatives in CBI used their own standard B2 set.
Possibly a better radio. But - "Not invented here".
via: Hue Miller