Attached is scan of photo i recently bought, image and reverse side text. This will be one of WW2 three overseas uses of the SCR-195 ( BC-322 ) radio i have noted.
One was use in Iceland for guard duty or training; of course, that was not a combat use. The second was a photo image on the back cover of the Time – Life WWII

series, book on the Italian Campaign. So this is number 3. I am taking an educated guess that these are FFE ( ‘Free French’  ) soldiers and that the USA was giving

the FFE army some of their hand-me-downs, in this case semi-obsolete or “limited standard” i think it was maybe called.

My father said when he hit southern France in the invasion, their 90 mm gun battalions equipment was given to France, given i say; and that “there was not that

much of the Luftwaffe left to shoot down”, and he was reassigned to field repair with an armored convoy.

Oh, wait, make that 4. I have a photo of the SCR-195 use in CBI by our allies.

I am not an expert in uniforms and so on – is there anything in the photo itself that helps cinch the case that these were FFE soldiers?

-Hue Miller

I have a somewhat more pixels scan, not posted here, of only some 280 kb, that i will forward on request.