I was looking at ‘World War II’ magazine for May 2001, and the ad for ‘Traditions Military Videos’. The ad lists one of high interest to me,

‘PBM: Sonar Buoy Deployment’, $19.95 However, it looks i dawdled too long. ‘Traditions’ website is for sale and my mail inquiries were

unanswered. I suppose Youtube killed them; you sell a video, and next week, it’s up on Youtube. Oh well…. Anyway, i looked at Youtube

with subject, sonobuoy. There are a bunch of videos, mostly more recent, but some dealing with WW2. Here’s one i found interesting:

It had not occurred to me that a group were dropped during the same search. I do have the ARR-3 receiver, its special “HiFi” headphones,

and one sonobuoy. The ARR-3 has specs similar to 1940s civilian FM radios, except the tuning band is different. I think this setup might

make a neat display, when working, but maybe that project is one i should abandon. I have not given up on finding the Traditions Video on

PBM aircraft operations, but i am temporarily stumped. Searching YouTube for ‘sonobuoy’ gets you a bunch of interesting videos. But i

have medicare and so on, on my mind right now, so i can’t pursue these now. I think some small percentage of the readers here may find

this subject of interest.

A cousin of mine, Albrecht Kilian, was a U-Boat radioman and instructor, based out of Norway. I was too young then and not aware much

about WW2 and not up to speed to ask any questions. So it goes. My brother stayed at A.K.’s house on a trip to Germany in 1973 but my

brother is not such a WW2 history bug. I gather, from what A.K. said, the younger crewmen were more “gung-ho” than the older, who by

late war, were more interested in running the clock out, than in drowning. I think the wiser, less gung-ho captains avoided sea battles if they

could.

Anyway, interesting subject, i think.

-Hue Miller