[MRCA] NASM B-26 Flak Bait Restoration - Radio Op Position Status?

[Mike Morrow]

> ...or did they just use the command set transmitters for that [liaison] function...?

In the European Theater of WWII, it is almost a certainty that a B-26 used the four-channel crystal-controlled VHF-AM SCR-522-A for all command set functions.  The SCR-274-N HF command set, if still fully installed, likely saw little or no use except possibly for its BC-453-B range receiver.

I have been told by an ETO radio operator on multi-engine USAAF aircraft that the SCR-522-A was by far the most important and most used radio communications set for USAAF aircraft in the ETO.  Pilot memoirs can be found that report superior and easy to use the pushbutton VHF command set was, compared to the old "coffee-grinder" HF command set.

So...it is doubtful that those two SCR-274-N transmitters had much value in the ETO, for aircraft operating out of the UK especially.

Mike / KK5F