[Milsurplus] Unk markings on German portable set

Cliff Miller cliff52 at gmail.com
Sun Sep 17 09:46:18 EDT 2017


I should say, "A" U-20 sank the Lusitania.  Here's the wiki for the WW2
U-Boat:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_submarine_U-20_(1936)

I enjoy the history uncovered by these random researches.

On Sun, Sep 17, 2017 at 9:41 AM, Cliff Miller <cliff52 at gmail.com> wrote:

> U-20 sank the Lusitania.  See the wiki:  https://en.wikipedia.org/
> wiki/SM_U-20_(Germany)
>
> On Sun, Sep 17, 2017 at 8:39 AM, Tom B <tbryan at nova.org> wrote:
>
>> Hi Hue,
>>
>> What looks strange to me is the font.  It looks like an American or
>> Canadian stencil.  It's possible these were capture markings.
>>
>> Tom Bryan
>>
>> On 9/17/2017 12:13 AM, Hubert Miller wrote:
>>
>> Gang, what do you make of this? German R-3 / RS-20 pair, in chests.
>> Surface rust on metal detail that will require some thinking on my part to
>>
>> remove and clean up. But – the U 20 designation? We do know this set was
>> carried on U-boats similar to the way the U.S. Navy TBX was the
>>
>> "shore party" radio. This pair was supposedly captured in Quebec. I was
>> told this by the previous owner, a straight-up guy and a double E or
>>
>> better engineer. I looked up U-20 and it had limited range and was not
>> sent to N.A. coast. Is there a number faded off, after the 20 ? Seems
>>
>> unlikely. In 1940 the U-20 was disassembled and land transported and
>> reassembled at a Black Sea port. Scuttled 1944.
>>
>> The other markings on the cases, I suppose, were some kind of capture
>> inventory? Your opinion is welcome.
>>
>>
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