[MRCG] Cavalry Radios = The Other Cavalry

[Ed Zeranski]

There is film of US Army soldiers marching north through Italy on 
mountain trails where the "pogo Stick" can be seen carried over a 
soldier's shoulder.  Another view of the radio is WWII film of , I 
believe Tarawa, where a "Pogo Stick" is stuck in the sand in the 
foreground of a camera man's shot of the beach. That does not show the 
whole radio but the bottom stick stuck in the sand  and lower half of 
the radio box/cube upper left of the frame. Some place I read the 511 
was concidered more reliable than the 611. Just passing stuff 
along....no financial interest in either set ~:^)=




EdZ KG6UTS

On 05/12/2015 06:15 PM, Dennis DuVall wrote:
> Yes, that would be the SCR-511 (BC-745).  The shaft fit in the guidon socket on cavalry saddle stirrups.  The most portable radio the Army had for a while at the beginning of the War and probably used on the ground rather than on horseback most of the time.
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> Dennis D.  W7QHO
> Glendale, CA
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