[Milsurplus] Radio on the Frontlines: WWI and WWII | DPLA

[Bruce MacMillan]

When the war began we had a general staff whose concept of war was 
charging on horseback with sabres drawn. Doesn't always work when 
charging machineguns. In the UK the Royal Navy was first to adopt wide 
use of wireless to contact ships at sea.
WW1 was a learning war in technology. Runners were targeted, 
telephone/telegraph lines blown up, pigeons shot or eaten by birds of 
prey. Signal lamps were effective up to their maximum range but it 
became clear that wireless could be the answer.
With the development of tube based sets I was surprised to see that the 
US was still making crystal sets in 1918 (BC14A).

Bruce
M0SOE

On 09/03/2020 01:05, arc5 at ix.netcom.com wrote:
>
> There were a great many officers in World War 1, who did not trust 
> this newfangled thing called radio. There was a great deal of 
> resistance to it in both the Army and the Navy. That a particular 
> officer would entrust this information to Runners rather than the 
> radio really wouldn't surprise me much.
>



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