[Milsurplus] B-17 "Second Operator"

[Bill Carns]

Actually, the picture does not refer to a “second” radio operator.  It calls the second guy in the photo an assistant (not a term that would be used in the military for sure).  Could well be a gunner pulled into the act or just staged.

 

Bill

 

From: Milsurplus [mailto:milsurplus-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Hubert Miller
Sent: Thursday, February 04, 2016 1:31 AM
To: armyradios at yahoogroups.com; milsurplus at mailman.qth.net
Subject: Re: [Milsurplus] B-17 "Second Operator"

 

Absolutely right, Dennis. Most of the for-magazine photos are staged. “Do something like you’re working the radio.” ( Isn’t there a ‘codetalkers’ photo with a TBY with no power supply attached? )

Still, the point was, i cannot imagine what a 2nd radio operator was needed for. 
Yes, of course the transmitter for this TU had to be the BC-191 type, as Mike pointed out.

Since BC-224-A in situ photos are not as common, i usually keep the magazines they appeared in.

 

I saw in a Japanese photo the other day the view inside a Japanese ‘Mavis’ seaplane looking forward. 

The radio, one unit, even tho it was a relatively high-powered liaison set, was suspended from bungee

cords. When i saw that, i realized how easy it was for those scuba divers to remove the radio from 

the sunken Japanese plane – that photo that appeared in QST maybe 20 years ago. The radio went to

the local museum – taking souvenirs is now forbidden, with some exceptions made for bribery or

as they call it, ‘licensing’,  at Guadalcanal. 

-Hue

 

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Subject: Re: [Milsurplus] B-17 "Second Operator"

 

And maybe just a kluged up photo session…  “You two guys.  Get over here and act like you know something about these radios…”  See a lot of this kind of stuff in the Radio News Magazine “Special" issues put out during the War.  

 

Dennis D.  W7QHO

Glendale, CA

 

 

 

                                                                                

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