Don’t sell that radio short! The SCR-522 is a radio with huge limitations, insensitive, the auto channel mechanism was larger than the radio and all the difficulties trying to get the multi overtone crystal to work for the front end. But all that aside it was king in the ETO and just about everywhere by the end of the war being VHF AM was where the world was going. I prefer American hardware like the ARC-1 or better yet the ARC-3 that came after, the ARC-3 stayed in service well into the sixties but the cantankerous old SCR-522 with all its problems set the standard for everything that came after.

Hard to Imagin anyone would attempt to do something like a P-51 for a museum without that radio.

Ray F/KA3EKH