[Milsurplus] What is it? Clandestine?

[Bruce Gentry]

Considering the number of WW2 German tank  and morale receivers I have 
seen over the years, a lot of stuff made it here.  German civilians were 
very quick to grab clocks and instruments from airplanes abandoned or 
wrecked by retreating army and air force personnel, knowing they could 
swap them to allied forces for food and other needs.  Who knows how many 
radios were  hid to be swapped or sold later, especially  once the Cold 
War began and the allies began to support and help Germany.

      Bruce Gentry, KA2IVY


On 7/19/18 5:30 PM, Richard Solomon wrote:
> At the end of WW II when the troops
> were coming home in droves, things
> were a tad lax.
> One of the favorite souvenirs of the
> Tin Can Sailors was a 3" shell, less
> the powder, thankfully.
> But, the primer was still live and that
> needed to be disposed of.
>
> 73, Dick, W1KSZ
>
> On Thu, Jul 19, 2018 at 12:55 PM, Hubert Miller <Kargo_cult at msn.com 
> <mailto:Kargo_cult at msn.com>> wrote:
>
>     >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?
>
>     I think that's undoubtedly it. As I understand it, by reading some
>     rules documents, during the war, you were quite limited as to
>     souvenirs - generally it was uniform items.
>     Not any kind of "scientific item". Rules got bent. I don't know if
>     you could mail back packages during the war - letters were reduced
>     to microfilm for transmission.
>     When at end of war, you could send packages back, you had to - as
>     I understand it - get a release form, that the items were
>     permitted souvenirs. I'd say within a year that
>     was history and whatever could legally go thru mail, could be
>     sent. Some vet could have picked up the item, either during the
>     war or picked it up afterward, when dollars
>     were king, then sent or carried it back.
>     -H
>
>
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