[MRCA] Additional thought on Dayton Hamvention

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The BC-620 in addition to being used by Armor, was also hauled around by the Infantry and even had a cart mounted version that the Airborne hauled around. Point of the matter was, it was not a Field Artillery radio.
Mark D.WW2RDO
In a message dated 2/16/2019 1:00:23 AM Eastern Standard Time, mrca at mailman.qth.net writes:


“The BC-659 was the radio used by the Field Artillery.”  Correct.  Although the Infantry got some of them, too.  “The BC-620 is an Infantry Radio.”  No, BC-620, part of SCR-509 and SCR-510, was used by Armor.  It was the mate to the much larger SCR-508/528.  The only mostly Infantry FM radio of WW-II was the BC-1000 (SCR-300).  AN/VRC-3 (mostly Armor for talking to the grunts) was the vehicular version.

  

Robert Downs


 

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