[Milsurplus] ID Marines Vietnam radio

[Peter Gottlieb]

If the antenna is just that, then maybe something UHF for forward air support?  
Or is it the base and we can't see the whip on top?


On 3/7/2017 9:06 PM, Hubert Miller wrote:
>
> What is this radio? At first i thought, PRC-8/9/10, but this is 1968. Khe 
> Sanh, Viet Nam, first line defense post at Hill 881. Keeping an eye on Hill 
> 882, base for NVA infantry, rockets, mortars throughout the
>
> siege. Note that most of the radio is radio; with what i assume is battery 
> box, down below – see the dividing line. Handset is somehow clipped to top 
> center. The wide antenna threw me. The diagonal line
>
> toward antenna from left , i have no clue? Is it another antenna from another 
> radio set below in the trench?
>
> This is from “Last Stand at Khe Sanh – U.S. Marines’ Finest Hour In Vietnam”, 
> Gregg Jones, 2014. I found it at the Dollar Store, where i have gotten a 
> number of war books. I cannot recommend this book
>
> unless you have a special interest in this Vietnam episode – it is very 
> depressing to read about heavy American losses at this small-unit, up close 
> and personal level.  I will probably recall forever the account
>
> of one young Lt. who dismissed the advice of his men, determined to take 
> prisoner some NVA who let themselves be noticed as bait, ordered “Let’s go get 
> them”. The Lt. and half his 40-man unit were killed.
>
> The bodies remained out front for weeks.
>
> The scan didn’t quite go as well as i hoped, due to limitations of my 
> equipment and its operator.
>
> -H
>
>
>
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