[Milsurplus] Those P-39s Still in the Crates...

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That jives with what my father-in-law told me (started in B-24's and 
finished in C-123's).  He said that usually when his 24 squadron moved to a 
different island, they sometimes turned in their Command Set transmitters and drew 
different ones.  

Robert Downs - Houston
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In a message dated 05/06/2017 20:29:18 PM Central Daylight Time, 
kb8tq at n1k.org writes: 
> Hi
> 
> Based on conversations with “those who were there”, I do not believe that 
> putting 
> aircraft numbers on radios or any other piece of gear was at all common. 
> Engines, 
> radios, nav gear, radars, bomb sights all came out when they were broke 
> (or needed calibration /
> overhaul). They went back into airframes as they got fixed / overhauled  
> or calibrated. 
> There really was no other practical way to do it in a combat zone. 
> 
> Maybe once everything got back to stateside and grounding an aircraft was 
> no big deal, 
> they kept everything together. I still find that unlikely. What is very 
> likely is when they scrapped 
> out an aircraft, the pieces pulled were logged against the aircraft. That 
> let them verify it had been done. 
> It saved a lot of hassle of the “did we just crush a good radio?” sort. 
> 
> How did I come by at least part of this? Well once upon a time when much 
> younger, I 
> started extolling my experience with ARC-5 radios to my future father in 
> law. I then spent
> a few hours listening to exactly what setting the first USAAF airfield in 
> France after the 
> D-Day landing was like … hmmm …. Radio goes *here* in this airplane … 
> watch out for hitting
> *that* when you connect this … Lots of interesting stuff. 
> 
> Bob
> 
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