[MRCA] FW: USS Missouri Radio Room pics

Herb Mooney herbert.mooney at gmail.com
Sat May 6 12:45:50 EDT 2023


Thanks Nick! That is great information and a nice collection of pics and
history. I'll keep an eye out on Ebay for sure. Did the Army have its own
version with a Signal Corps tag on it? Did they use them in the larger
aircraft/bombers or just pen and paper for those operations?

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On Sat, May 6, 2023 at 12:16 PM Nick England <navy.radio at gmail.com> wrote:

> Known as a "mill" typewriter - for radiomen copying Morse. The portable
> Underwood shows up on eBay every now and then.
> Here's my page with info photos, and a downloadable font-
> https://www.navy-radio.com/morse-mill.htm
>
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> On Sat, May 6, 2023 at 12:08 PM Herb Mooney <herbert.mooney at gmail.com>
> wrote:
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>> Was there anything special about these typewriters used in the radio
>> rooms of ships and planes and in the field? Who made them for the military?
>> I can't read the name. I'd like to find one for my B-29 setup.
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