[Milsurplus] Merrill's Marauders book photo

[Nick England]

Here's that photo with the people identified
http://www.marauder.org/p_106.htm

LT Filiak with the loop antenna is also shown here -
http://www.marauder.org/p_105.htm

More info on LT Filiak is in the middle of this account -
http://www.cbi-history.com/part_vi_signal_corps-3.html

You guys probably know all this already - I'm just passing some time
googling......

Cheers,
Nick

Nick England K4NYW
www.navy-radio.com

On Mon, Dec 7, 2015 at 10:13 PM, Hubert Miller <kargo_cult at msn.com> wrote:

> Osprey Publishing has a book on Merrill's Marauders. One photo in it
> puzzled me. It shows a team with an SCR-284 radio,
> with a homemade loop antenna on top, and to the right of it, a barely
> discernible small box which i was finally able to
> identify as an RCA  aircraft transmitter AVT-15.
>
> If i've got this right, the photo is seeable in an ebook preview of this
> title, page 26, at
>
> https://books.google.com/books/osprey?id=MQmdNEXK6ukC&q=radio&dq=Merrill's+Marauders&source=gbs_word_cloud_r&cad=3#v=snippet&q=radio&f=false
>
> on the Osprey Publishing website.
> Another reason to have reservations is that the young guys in the photo
> look remarkably fit, energetic, and relaxed. Clearly not from the
> combat zone.
> I'll comment to the publisher.
> -Hue Miller
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