[Milsurplus] [MRCA] Stuff at Dayton/Xenia and other thoughts

[Hubert Miller]

I have a newspaper ad advertising the No.19 sets, US build, sold at department store. 
Odd, isn't it ? But i guess there were a ton of them left over, and they were all in one crate, which made them easier to sell as a complete package.
The only USA use of these i ever heard of, several decades ago, a customer told me he was in the US Army in a "mapping van", making maps for the
forces as they advanced, and the vehicle had a No.19 set as "liaison set" for working with British forces.

At the time, there were still plenty of WW2 veterans around. I talked to one fellow who as aircraft radioman spotted for US ships bombarding some
island - sorry, i don't have this together enough to name the island; a radioman - gunner who flew off the Gambier Bay, before it was sunk; a fighter
pilot who flew in China.....and so on. I should have gotten more details, but, you do what you can with what you have. Oh and the fellow who worked
at Rhodes Department Store, who was on two ships WW1 that were torpedoed and sunk under him....
-Hue Miller