[MRCA] FW: USS Missouri Radio Room pics

[Christopher Bowne]

Thanks for the pix!  We’re the RBB (or RBC)? 
and RAK (or RBL)? - can’t read the label
plates …original to the ship, or were they brought in as museum pieces to show “ the way it was”? 

73 de Chris AJ1G
Stonington CT
Sent from EE-8 Field Telephone



> On May 6, 2023, at 13:06, Doran Platt <jeepp at comcast.net> wrote:
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> Most radio positions used an "all caps" typewriter, either the full size mill or a smaller version. I had a full size a while back. I think someone, maybe the office equip. repair business that overhauled mine, called it a "post office" typewriter.... 
> Jeep K3HVG
>> On 05/06/2023 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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>> On Sat, May 6, 2023 at 10:22 AM ken krausgill via MRCA <mrca at mailman.qth.net> wrote: 
>> Gang, 
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>> Tim, KD2WYY, asked me to forward these to the group. 
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>> 4/27 from Tim; 
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