[Milsurplus] Gibson Girl ( Milsurplus Digest, Vol 138, Issue 14 )

[Hue Miller]

As to its actual use, the item I mentioned last digest, indicates there were 
successful uses of the radio. Wouldn't you love to have interviewed the 
members of that
select "club" ?
Its use seems to be NOT included with liferaft equipment but airdropped to 
survivors by patrol aircraft.

I'm thinking I recently read some Pacific war account which mentioned the 
dropping of the rescue radio but I'll be damned if I can pull up any of the 
specifics.

MANY years ago, I recall reading another Pacific sea battles account. 
Survivors of some sinking were in a lifeboat, I think - not  a raft - and 
the account said
with their radio they not only were able to send but were able to hear one 
of their ships in communications with elsewhere. This has puzzled me for 
years;
the only candidate radio I can think of is the TBX, unless it was one of 
those larger RMCA units with LF receiver-transmitter. I don't think I want 
to try to look
thru every war book I've read since the 1970s and maybe the clock will run 
out without me ever finding this again. Still, it really puzzles me, and I'd 
sure like
to read that passage again.
-Hue