[MRCA] Signal Corps Radios 1930's Info Request

[Joe Foley via MRCA]

You might want to make a serious investigation of commercial and private radio use at that time.  Radio had only been POPULAR, that is "normal" for about 10 years,... not all that long, so the average person had no, or little, knowledge of it much less about the proper operation or maintenance of it all.  Check the debacle of the Amelia Earhart story as it concerned radio usage, also that is a good example of the equipment available at that time.

Joe



On Thursday, September 4, 2014 9:26 PM, D. Platt <jeepp at comcast.net> wrote:
 


Gentlemen,

A friend of mine (and military science professor) is doing a
      formal dissertation (at the request of a Philippine government
      entity) on the Philippine resistance movement during WWII.  This
      would include both US military as well as those of the PI.  As
      part of this effort, he's asked me about the radio sets they used
      and what the difficulties would have been.   We all have the
      "catalogs" of radio gear of WWII, but does anyone know what would
      have been in the SW Pacific very early on, Navy or Army?  I
      suspect that it was gear from the mid to late 1930's?  I know
      there was a fair amount of indigenous and otherwise commercial
      gear hauled out into the "woods" when the Japanese invasion came
      and a lot of home-brew took place.  We also know that some new,
      replacement gear did make it in at various times, before MacArthur
      came back in.  Those radio sets are probably the easiest to
      identify, however.  Of course, there's the story in QST about the
      Navy ensign who was lauded for his radio work in the bush during
      that occupation period.  Any thoughts or other intel would be
      appreciated.  I do have the Signal Corps history series and will
      be reviewing that data, also.  TNX OM!

Jeep - K3HVG
 
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