[Milsurplus] TCM/RAS in M-2-4 truck

Kenneth G. Gordon kgordon2006 at frontier.com
Tue Feb 14 19:45:31 EST 2017


On 14 Feb 2017 at 18:32, Thekan, Paul wrote:

> 
>     When I was in High School 40+ years ago and going through what were war time issues of Look 
>     or Life magazine I came across a photo that grabbed my attention and held it to this day.
>      
>     It was two photos from the Pacific Theater , one showed a shirtless radio operator with what I 
>     know now to be a RAS rcr and to his left a partial view of a TCM xmtr. At the time I thought the 
>     rcvr was like my HRO 7R and the transmitter had all these meters going across it and it wasn´t 
>     until I got my TCM and by complete coincidence had my RAS next to it that it triggered that 
>     memory of the photo that I had seen when I was 17 yo.
>      
>     The other photo showed the truck and a trailer( I think the 1 ton trailer) unhitched and some 
>     ways back from the truck which must have had the generator either a PE 95 or maybe a PE 75.  
>     There were a few palm trees in the background with the palms all shot off and just the trunks of 
>     the trees left standing.
>      
>     I´d really like to find what magazine it was in. Has anybody else ever seen those photos?

Well, I KNOW I've seen that photo. It may have been in a National Geographic Magazine, 
though.

Ken W7EKB

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