From: military-radio-guy Full-Name: Dennis R Starks To: kc5ijd@sprintmail.com Fcc: Sent Date: Thu, 27 Nov 1997 07:05:54 Subject: Military Collector Group Post, Nov.20/97 Message-ID: <19971127.070317.3335.10.military-radio-guy@juno.com> X-Status: Sent X-Mailer: Juno 1.38 Military Collector Group Post, Nov.20/97 Index: BASIC JAPANESE RADIO COLLECTION PART X; by Bill Howard Manuals Needed; MEMBER PROFILE; Meet Craig HUMOR; ****************************************************** BASIC JAPANESE RADIO COLLECTION PART X; We have discussed the radios in general and some in detail. This part will be the wrap up of the series and will be about the reports written and who wrote most of them. Technical reports done during the war seem to fall into about three categories. 1) Technical Bulletins and Technical Manuals which were for the benefit of combat forces so they could identify what they had captured and possibly make use of if it became necessary: 2) Detailed technical reports on items of equipment, done primarily to identify manufacturing facilities as targets for bomber raids. 3) Strategic intelligence assessments of Enemy capabilities or intentions. For the most part the main concern was the development and fielding of new weapons. The Enemy Equipment Identificatin Service, E.E.I.S. was established shortly after the war started. This was the Signal Corps technical intelligence service. EEIS teams were deployed to Europe and were assigned to most of the Corps in the American army. What captured enemy radios they recovered were sent back to the Signal /depot at Camp Holabird, in the midst of Baltimore, Maryland. For those not familiar with the area, it is about halfway between Aberdeen Proving Ground, the Home of Ordnance and Washington, D.C., site of the newly built Pentagon(1942) and the various signal intercept and decoding operations. Some equipment was also sent by them to Fort Monmouth, New Jersey, now about a 2 hour drive but in the 1940?s must have been a full days drive. By the end of the war in Europe, there were some 6,000 people involved in making technical investigations of the German industrial effort. There was considerable duplication of effort, competition for limited resources and a great deal of confusion as to who was supposed to do what. Then too, there were the French, British and Russians who had their technical investigators. The Pacific war was a different story, almost! As in Europe, we started with almost nothing. A few ordnance and signal officers were sent to Australia where some technical intelligence training was being done at a hastily organized school at the University of Victoria(?) in Melbourne. This handful of people became the basis of the U.S. technical intelligence.( I have a 96 page document on the history of the technical intelligence effort in the Pacific, condensed from the original 150 some pages.) Within a short time the Army realized the mistakes made in Europe and created a centralized facility which was designated the 5220 th Technical Intelligence Company (Composite). Composite and Provisional were the Buzz words of the era. The 5220th sent teams to the forward areas which were made up of people from all the technical services. The equipment was evacuated usually by boat to the central collecting points as military forces moved forward, the central point moved, once to the Phillipeans and then to Japan. The equipment was gone over to see if any changes in design or manufacture had occured. Information of immediate value was sent to the fighting forces, The equipment was then sent back to Fort Monmouth via the depot in Baltimore, Md. The fly in the ointment, however was the JAPLATE program. Conceived in Washington , D.C. by economic intelligence anaylsists, this program required that all data plates be removed from Japanese equipment and sent to Washington. Usually done by the capturing forces, these data plates went to Washington, and also into soldiers pockets as they were ?neat souveniers? and could even be sent home in a letter. The equipment, to include the radios arrived at the technical intelligence company with no data plate. There was no way for them to determine if there was a design change and if there was, whether or not they were looking at an older model which had been improved or a newer model with manufacturing shortcuts due to supply. By late 1943, the JAPLATE program was scrapped but the end result was that there are many Japanese sets out there missing the data plates. The sets that are missing the MILITARY SECRET data plate, a small tag with a red background and silver letters, loose about $200.00 of their value in Japan. These data plates show up at gun shows from time to time, usually with a $10 to $35 price tag. If they are for a radio, I would suggest you get them. They may become useful in time. You may find the radio it was for! The Navy also had a technical intelligence operation called the M.E.I.U. for Mobile Explosive Investigation Unit. Composed mostly of frogmen and bomb disposal people, they were more concerned with ordnance than with radios.. The Army Air Corps/Air Forces also had a technical intelligence unit, called the T.A.I.U. for Technical Air Intelligence Unit. As you might suspect, their primary interest was the aircraft. Very little attention was given to the radios and radio related equipment. After the war, General Mc Arthur ordered all the Japanese radios destroyed. Many were but many more came home. One enterprising individual managed to send home a chest for the Type 94-6 sets with two complete radios and all the accessories. The major technical intelligence effort after the war was done by Ordnance Technical Intelligence and covered the Japanese Arms industry. Very little attention to Japanese radios. The other major investigative work done was the Strategic Bombing Survey. They produced an in-depth look at Japanese industry but only to assess the efffects of the bombing of the Japanese industrial base with no interest in historial evolution of equipment. After the war, all the reports done by the EEIS and the Signal Corps were turned over to the Department of Commerce. From there they were sent to the Library of Congress. Two of these reports have been located and copies have circulated through the collecting fraternity, the report on the Type 94-5 set and the Type 94-6 sets. Through the efforts of Bob Bolin, a former employee of the Foreign Science and Technology Center, (Established in 1963 and now merged with the National Ground Intelligence Center) many of the missing reports have been located and efforts are under way to obtain copies. As a result, there has been little written on Japanese radios until I started in 1992. There have been two up grades of a book on the subject that I first put out in 1992. As new items are located, they are photographed and put into the next revision. I have hopes of a revision in 1998 which will probably be available in early 1999. I have also been working on a series of Video tapes on these radios and when finished(?) will be made availalbe. In conclusion, I am not an expert and continue to learn, thanks to help from many people, most notabley Lou Demers, Ken Lakin, Pat Lombardi and Pat Anthony, and Leonard Hunter as well as others who have supplied information, assistance and photographs/ Several people have contacted me or Dennis while the series was running and some of their comments and observations have been included here. William L. Howard LTC Armor USAR THE WILLIAM L. HOWARD ORDNANCE TECHNICAL INTELLIGENCE MUSEUM e-mail wlhoward@gte.net Telephone AC 813 585-7756 ****************************************************** Manuals Needed; Anybody have a manual for sale / loan on the URM 25 F? Got one,has a small problem. Thanks, Dave Email: w0nbz@juno.com -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dennis: Do you have any tech manuals on APG-13A gunnery trajectory radar? Thanks, Roland Maruska e-mail: wachstockj@juno.com -------------------------------------------------------------------------- I just received a care package from Bruce Haffner. In it was PRC-39 manual copy(thanks Bruce) & some magazine articles that will be addressed at a later date. One of interest has the TR-20 OPS radio as the subject matter. The article does include some errors, no doubt necessary at the time. But for the most part is valuable to our research as it contains some info that until now were generally unknown. Problem is we are missing the last couple pages of the article. So if anybody has the April 1963 issue of Popular Electronics, we would like to see the rest of the article. The title is "South Vietnam's 40 Megacycle Intercom". Thanks, Dennis ******************************************************** MEMBER PROFILE; Meet Craig Dennis My primary collecting interest is WW1 1914-1919 Navy wireless/radio equipment.Been at it about 12 years, member AWA,FAWG,ARCA(when it was still around) and many different antique radio clubs around the country. I hit most of the major meets every year and many of the smaller antique and hamfests. Got a killer 1KW spark station set up in a corner of my office, replica of the one on the USS Eagle, a WW1 sub chaser.. Used to be heavy into WW 2 avaiation radio but sold out when I moved last year. Had a whole room full of that stuff. Thanks Dennis, I'll enjoy the group mailings. Craig Email; ip500@roanoke.infi.net ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Glad to see somebody is interested in the realy old stuff Craig, Hope I we can be of some help sometime. Dennis ******************************************************** HUMOR; > > Great Lies of the American Army Officer 1. "I wanted to, but the boss wouldn't go for it." 2. "I left the message on E-Mail." 3. "This issue has the interest of the general." 4. "My voice mail is down." 5. "Your voice mail was down." 7. "Think of it as a chance to start over." 8. "We're all going to share in the hardship." 9. "Its only a temporary work-around." 10 "It hurts me because I like you so much." 11 "We always coordinate these actions." 12. "They never coordinate their actions." 13. "I think of us as a team." 14. "I think of us as a family." 15. "Synergy" 16. "Its just an exercise. Nothing is written in stone." 17. "Lets leave the fine points to the General Council." 18. "Value added." 19. "These are our core business processes." 20. "We remain relavant." 21. "I like to get the feel of things before I make changes." 22. "Your fax must be broken." 23. "I want to include the entire team in this decision." 24. "It's a draft. The bugs'll be out before we go final." 25. "Just a tiny point or two in the contract and we're done." 26. "I don't care about short-term." 27. "Send this issue to the PAT, we need an answer quick." 28. "This is the first time I've seen it. I never got my copy." 29. "The conference is over at 1700." 30. "This is the finest unit in which I have ever served." 31. "I can handle bad news." 32. "I hate TDY." 33. "TDY doesn't bother my wife." 33. "I've had two hardship tours." 34. "I am not zero defects oriented." 35. "The DA Staff badge means little to me." 36. "I made good money on the sale of our last home." 37. "I'm retiring next year and going to work for USAA." 38. "I run all the Army 10 milers." 39. "Running doesn't bother me." 40. "CHAMPUS is a great deal." 41. "I squared DEH away after that quarters incident." 42. "My calls are all official business." 43. "I let PERSCOM worry about my next assignment." 44. "Texas has always been my official home of records." 45. "My application for RANGER school was turned down." 46. "I've have never had a profile." 47. "My NCO's love me." 48. "I didn't even submit a packet to the last promotion board." 49. "Computers are your friend." 50. "Washington politics don't effect me." 51. "My son just received a full-ride at Duke." 52. "The Fayetteville, NC school system is number one in the South." 53. "I wouldn't hesitate to get that surgery done a Womack AH." 54. "I deferred battalion command selection to take this job." 55. "My boss insisted that I have a cell phone." 56. "I don't believe in reserved parking." 57. "Last year I lost 28 days of leave." 58. "My work day starts at 0400." 59. "My work day ends at 2200." 60. "I volunteered for Vietnam." 61. "My grandfather was a Roughrider." 62. "I survived the 2nd Bay of Pigs invasion." 63. "If my wife divorces me, she won't get a dime." 64. "I trained jungle warfare students at Fort Greely." 65. "My next assignment will probably be at Langley AFB." 66. "Brits and Aussies can't drink beer." 67. "I've never been one for face-time." 68. "This is a REAL Rolex." 69. "I really enjoyed my last Joint assignment in Iceland." ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SIGNS THAT YOU ARE NO LONGER A KID: You're asleep, but others worry that you're dead. You can live without sex but not without glasses. Your back goes out more than you do. You quit trying to hold your stomach in, no matter who walks into the room. You buy a compass for the dash of your car. You are proud of your lawn mower. Your best friend is dating someone half their age ..... and isn't breaking any laws. You call Olan Mills before they call you. Your arms are almost too short to read the newspaper. You sing along with the elevator music. You would rather go to work than stay home sick. You constantly talk about the price of gasoline. You enjoy hearing about other people's operations. You consider coffee one of the most important things in life. You make an appointment to see the dentist. You no longer think of speed limits as a challenge. Neighbors borrow your tools. People call at 9 p.m. and ask, "Did I wake you ?" You answer a question with, "because I said so!" You send money to PBS. The end of your tie doesn't come anywhere near the top of your pants. You take a metal detector to the beach. You wear black socks with sandals. You know what the word "equity" means. You can't remember the last time you laid on the floor to watch television. Your ears are hairier than your head. You talk about "good grass" and you're referring to someone's lawn. You get into a heated argument about pension plans. You got cable for the weather channel. You can go bowling without drinking. You have a party and the neighbors don't even realize it. --------- End forwarded message ---------- When finished reading use browser back button or go to http://www.prc68.com/MCGP/MCGP.html