[Milsurplus] What is it? Clandestine?

[Bruce Gentry]

Could the radio be a war trophy, brought home by someone, then offered 
for sale after the person died or lost interest in it? What were the 
regulations after WW2 regarding bringing German and Japanese radio gear 
home?

       Bruce Gentry, KA2IVY


On 7/19/18 2:59 PM, Hubert Miller wrote:
> I saw a YouTube story on a German POW who escaped from a plains states camp and made his way to California,
> worked his way up through jobs to a successful career, was eventually busted but allowed to become a citizen.
> There were parts of the story that were kind of sketchy, like how he explained his accent and how he got around
> his draft status when seeking work. But I thought that, with a mix of elements from the Erich Gimpel story, about
> a spy who was caught in New York, there's the basis of a pretty interesting movie. Except if he decided to just
> drop out of the spy role, one of the first things he would do is dump the radio. I haven't worked out that part yet.
> This is maybe also a reminder that we should have some kind of documentation of the provenance of things we have,
> maybe tag them even. Otherwise they end up like this item, history unknown.
> -Hue
> On 19/07/2018 17:42, Robert Meadows wrote:
> > Simple,
> > A SD fellow came with it, was immediately enthralled by the fine folk, weather and good hunting, used his stash of cash to purchase a small place and became a pillar of the community, married and had a few fine children who grew up to serve in the US Navy as seals.
> > R
>
>
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