From: military-radio-guy Full-Name: Dennis R Starks To: military radio collectors#1 Fcc: Sent Date: Tue, 11 May 1999 05:17:43 Subject: MILITARY COLLECTOR GROUP POST, May 11/99 Message-ID: <19990511.051645.11943.1.military-radio-guy@juno.com> X-Status: Sent X-Mailer: Juno 1.49 MILITARY COLLECTOR GROUP POST, May 11/99 Index: ANNOUNCEMENTS; Library Manuals, DEATH OF A HERO,MAJOR JOHN HOWARD; MEMBERS WRITE; RS-6 in Russian Museum, PRC-68,-126 Antenna Connector Adapters, NEW MEMBER; Kevin Greene, KE6CQU HUMOR; *********************************************** ANNOUNCEMENTS; Library Manuals, The following manuals from my library will shortly be on there way. Members wishing copies can contact those that they are headed for. They will make your copies, and mail them at cost. For the SCR-511(Pogo-Stick): Instruction Book for SCR-511-B, United States Marine Corps Radio Material School, by Electronic Radio-Television Institute(Omaha NB.) This is not a very thick manual so should be easy and cost effective to reproduce. It's significant in that it is the only copy known to exist, and it proves Marine Corps use of the radio. Contact Alan Tasket For the PRC-68: PRC-68, Radio Set, PRC-68, org & di sup maint man, TM11-5820-882-23,Jan.81 (the is the one that contains the alignment and channel/programming data) Organizational & Direct Support Maintenance.TM11-5820-882-23P,Jan.82 Operator's Manual,TM11-5820-882-10,Jul.80 (this is the small pocket manual, it contains very little info of interest) Contact Lee Orsborn For the BC-669: SCR-543,Radio Sets SCR-543,A,B,C,D,technical manual, TM11-625,Dec.44 Contact John Brewer *********************************************** DEATH OF A HERO,MAJOR JOHN HOWARD; Death of hero who blazed the trail on D-Day By Neil Tweedie and Susannah Herbert MAJOR JOHN HOWARD, who led the airborne assault on Pegasus Bridge in the first minutes of D-Day, has died. He was 86. A spokesman at the nursing home in Hindhead, Surrey, where Major Howard spent his last years, said he died on Wednesday after being transferred to the Royal Surrey Hospital. Major Howard made history when he and a glider-borne company of the Oxford and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry stormed two bridges over the Caen Canal and River Orne, near Binouville, early on 6 June 1944. Their Horsa gliders landed within yards of their objectives, taking the defenders by surprise. Pegasus Bridge was secured in 10 minutes. Major Howard and his men were joined by the 7th Bn, 5th Parachute Regt, and held the bridge until relieved at 1.30pm on June 6 by Commandos led by Lord Lovat, who apologised for being two-and-a-half minutes late. The major moved his men on to Escoville, where a sniper's bullet went through his helmet and grazed his skull. He later suffered a shrapnel wound in his back. Although he was not aware of it at the time, many of his comrades, seeing his body covered in blood, believed that he had been killed. While waiting to be evacuated, he got bored, recovered his shirt and returned to his unit to continue to fight. Major Howard was awarded the DSO and the Croix de Guerre avec Palme for his part in the action. Richard Todd, who played Major Howard in the film The Longest Day, and who took part in the glider landings, said yesterday: "I'm very sorry to hear of his death. He was a gallant chap." Major Howard's daughter, Penny Bates, 55, who lives in Farnham, Surrey, said: "I was very close to my father and loved him dearly. I remember him as a person, a very energetic man, he was always lively and very good company. To me he was the man, one of the few men, who changed history. He would always say that he had just been in the right place at the right time. He was very modest and used to say that other people were just as brave as him and didn't receive the acclaim that he did. "He gave talks every year right up until recently. He continued to be very active until 18 months ago, then, with his injuries, he went downhill very quickly. I will remember him as the liveliest of men. He was so sharp witted, he read the newspapers and knew everything that was going on. He was always interesting and interested, he was never boring." The two bridges were vital to the success of the Normandy invasion. Field Marshal Montgomery had ordered their capture to secure the eastern flank of the British 1st Corps, whose leading units were due to land on Sword Beach later that day. Control of the crossings would impede the expected German counter-attack. The company was the first Allied unit to see action in Normandy. The canal bridge was re-named Pegasus Bridge in honour of the 6th Airborne Division - of which the Ox and Bucks was part - which had adopted the winged horse as its emblem. Cpl Wally Parr, who was in the first of the six gliders to land with Major Howard, described his former commander as "a man of great courage. He was a man who demanded great discipline, but was just in its application. He led by example. Above all, he did more than his share". Gen Sir Michael Gray, Chief of the Airborne Services Normandy Trust, described Major Howard as a "real warrior" and dear friend, chosen to lead the Pegasus mission because he was "a brilliant trainer and a hard man". "The job suited his character," said Gen Gray. "He trained his men meticulously beforehand with dedication and left nothing at all to chance. The fact that the operation was so precise and successful was fundamentally down to his training. It was brilliantly done." Major Howard was forced to return to Britain shortly after the Pegasus battle when he was seriously injured in a road accident. He retired from the Army in 1945 and went into agricultural sales, living with his wife, Joy, in the village of Burford, near Oxford. Memories of the extraordinary action remained fresh in his mind for the rest of his life. Major Howard returned to Bhnouville every year, often with his wife and daughter, to revisit the nearby canal, where the bridge used to be. He usually visited Normandy around 6 June to meet old friends and share reminiscences. He would also go down to the canal banks and relate his story to officers from military staff colleges from all over Europe. Even in later life, Major Howard was no stranger to conflict, albeit of a less lethal kind. In June 1997, he became embroiled in a latter-day Battle of Pegasus Bridge with Arlette Gondree, the owner of the land on which the village's Airborne Forces Museum stood. Following a long legal battle, Mme Gondree succeeded in evicting the museum in a highly theatrical "dawn raid", during which thousands of the museum's mementoes were removed. Major Howard was one of the museum's staunchest defenders and condemned Mme Gondree's actions, appearing on French television to say that she should be evicted and accusing her of behaving "very arrogantly". Yesterday, Mme Gondree, who was a small girl when Major Howard liberated her parents' cafe next to the bridge, played down the major's role in the liberation of her family, her home and her country. "He was simply one of many brave men," she said. Many years after the war, she described the moment that she first saw the liberating British troops. "It was an unbelievable moment for us. They came in with their blackened faces and hugged and kissed us. We were overjoyed." In the years since then, many ex-soldiers have made an annual pilgrimage to Binouville, Major Howard included, but since 1997, when he fell out with Mme Grondee over the memorial museum, his welcome at the cafe, the first building liberated by British troops, has been less enthusiastic than it was in 1944. Then there was the matter of the hard-boiled eggs. Major Howard helped to lead a revolt of residents at his retirement home after environmental health officers ordered that all eggs had to be hard-boiled for health reasons. The major fired off letters to the local press, decrying the nanny state. "Having survived somewhat greater dangers than breakfast, I really think I should be able to make my own decisions on whether eggs would finish me off," he said. His achievements are already commemorated in Normandy by a bronze bust which marks the spot where the gliders landed near Ouistreham. The remains of the original Pegasus Bridge are going to be incorporated in a new museum by the canal, which is due to open in June next year. The airborne landing will also be marked by a memorial service next week in Binouville, Gen Gray said. The deputy mayor of Binouville, Guy Baillehache, said he and the mayor of the village, Alain Nivault, were particularly saddened by the news of Major Howard's death. "We wanted to visit John before he died but sadly we didn't make it in time," he said. M Baillehache said he was organising a memorial service for Major Howard, due to take place on Monday. "It'll be something very simple, a time to reflect," he said. "Each time he was here we would have a drink or a meal. He was foremost a man of great modesty. He always talked about the achievements of his men and 'the team'. He was a man of great clarity of thought, a fine judge of every situation. "He also had the greatest respect for his enemy. We dined several times with Col von L|ck, of the 21st Panzer Division, which counter-attacked after the capture of the bridge. Col von L|ck died last year. After the war these two rivals became great friends." *********************************************** MEMBERS WRITE; RS-6 in Russian Museum, Hello Dennis: Yes, I have seen the radio in Moscow as part of a FSB (Federal Counterintelligence Service) exhibit. The descriptor indicated it was used by "insurgents" during the 1950s. From a counterintelligence prospective it was certainly a "spy radio". Regards, Keith Melton ----------------------------------------------------------------- PRC-68,-126 Antenna Connector Adapters, Dennis, I'm talking to a machine shop as to the expense involved in machining the housing for this adapter (hardware store copper pipe is either too small or too big). I have all the other parts to make it work. How many people are interested? Alan *********************************************** NEW MEMBER; Kevin Greene, KE6CQU Hello: In response to your letter, I have the following information. 1. I accept your terms of joining the effort to promote the military radio restoration efforts of others. 2. My background is that 6 years with the US services in areas in and around wideband and narrowband telecommunication. Systems that I have direct experience with include a number of large network system to include the AN/MRC series, the various AN/TRC platforms, Collins HF networks and UHF networks (AN/MSC systems), etc. I have always enjoyed working on these systems. My current project is the restoral of a Collins URG-II system that includes the entire control and RF sections. The enjoyment is the actual restoral and not the use of the equipment. I obtain my fun from taking that did not work and seeing if it can be restored to service rather than just talking with someone using the technology. Note: I am looking for some information on cabling information for the control system as the RF sections are under control. I have absolutely no problem helping others in their enjoyment of telecom technology of any type. While I work directly in the deployment of large telecom networks, I still enjoy the older technology and its history (as we would not be here today without the older stuff). My ability to help others is somewhat limited at the moment (I am in Lisbon, Portugal on an assignment), I can help by perhaps hosting a open (or closed) web site with a online database that people could use to share information of the restoral projects they have. My home in California has a dedicated connection to the Internet and I have a number of community web sites that I host. I also have a non profit corporation that is dedicated to disaster communication systems. In the past, I have provided technical information and funding to small projects in the area of telecom applications for local and regional disaster recovery. Thanks. Kevin Greene KE6CQU *********************************************** HUMOR; Dennis: Just in case you think we New Yorkers are all a bunch of hoity-toity prissy prancing mincing channel 13 tote-bag carrying twits who read the New York Times, eat Quiche Lorraine, study multi-culturalism, go to foreign film festivals and recite only the most delicate and nuanced of poetry, I have written the following verses especially for you, borrowing the meter from Edgar Allen Poe's The Raven. Once upon a midnight teary, While I suffered weak and weary, >From a bout with diarrhea that had made my asshole sore; While I lay there nearly napping, Suddenly I heard a tapping, As of someone gently crapping, Crapping on my bedroom floor. " 'Tis the cat," I muttered, "lapping milk I left before, Only this and nothing more." Throwing off my bed's warm cover, I stepped down and did discover, That the lapping and the tapping which I heard upon the floor, Were in fact my watery stool, Thin as Oliver Twist's gruel, Dripping from a smelly pool, Formed beneath my asshole sore. "I must clean this mess," I shouted. "What a foul and icky chore. And my last clean briefs I wore!" Ah, distinctly I remember, It was in a wet December, And I knew the toilet tissue had run out and was no more. "What a mess," I told my tushy. "Thou art brown and very mushy, Thou and my crotch hairs so bushy, I must go out to the store. I must go in this cold weather ere they close and lock the door, And it's starting now to pour." But it took a quarter-hour, Till I'd cleaned off in the shower, And put on some O.D. boxers that were left from days of yore. Better boxer than soiled jockey, Jockey soiled with my cockey, Like a jerkoff playing hockey, Who think's wearing a cup's a bore, 'Til a pucks slams 'gainst his onions and the fans, delighted, roar, While he shits as others score. So it was my unkind fate, To arrive a minute late, And be unable to purchase what I needed most of all. Homeward driving in my car, Bumpy roads my gut did jar, And before I got too far, Yielded I to nature's call, Which resulted in my auto stinking like a horse's stall, Where things lie just where they fall. E-mail me your reply at Bowel.com ------------------------------------------------------------------ Can atheists get insurance for acts of God? If Fed Ex and UPS were to merge, would they call it FedUP? Does fuzzy logic tickle? If they arrested the Energizer Bunny, would they charge it with battery? I believe five out of four people have trouble with fractions. I don't have a solution, but I admire your problem. If a tin whistle is made out of tin, then what, exactly, is a foghorn made out of? If quitters never win, and winners never quit, what fool came upwith, "Quit while you're ahead"? Okay, who stopped the payment on my reality check? I believe the only time the world beats a path to my door is when I'm in the bathroom. Do Lipton employees take coffee breaks? What hair color do they put on the driver's licenses of baldmen? [That's easy:"skin" color] If it's zero degrees outside today and it's supposed to betwice as cold tomorrow, how cold is it going to be? Why do you press harder on a remotecontrol when you know thebattery is dead? Since Americans throw rice at weddings, do Orientals throwhamburgers? Why are they called apartments, when they're all stuck together? Why do people without a watch look at their wrist when you ask them what time it is? Why do banks charge you an "insufficient funds fee" on money they already know you don't have? Does the reverse side also have a reverse side? If the universe is everything, and scientists say that the universe is expanding, what is it expanding into? What would a chair look like if your knees bent the other way? If a tree falls in the forest and no one is around to see it, do the other trees make fun of it? Why is a carrot more orange than an orange? When two airplanes almost collide why do they call it a near miss? It sounds like a near hit to me! Why are there 5 syllables in the word "monosylabic"? Why do they call it the Department of Interior when they are in charge of everything outdoors? When I erase a word with a pencil, where does it go? Why is it, when a door is open it's ajar, but when a jar is open, it's not adoor? Tell a man that there are 400 billion stars and he'll believe you. Tell him a bench has wet paint and he has to touch it. How come Superman could stop bullets with his chest, but always ducked when someone threw a gun at him? Why is lemon juice mostly artificial ingredients but dishwashing liquid contains real lemons? Why do we wait until a pig is dead to "cure" it? Why do we put suits in a garment bag and put garments in a suitcase? Why doesn't glue stick to the inside of the bottle? Do Roman paramedics refer to IV's as "4's"? What do little birdies see when they get knocked unconscious? Why doesn't Tarzan have a beard? Should you trust a stockbroker who's married to a travel agent? Is boneless chicken considered to be an invertebrate? ------------------------------------------------------------------ HERE'S A QUICK QUIZ FOR THE "GENTLE" MAN.... 1. In the company of feminists, coitus should be referred to as: a) Lovemaking b) Screwing c) The pigskin bus pulling into tuna town 2. You should make love to a woman for the first time only after you've both shared: a) Your views about what you expect from a sexual relationship b) Your blood-test results c) Five tequila slammers 3. You time your orgasm so that: a) Your partner climaxes first b) You both climax simultaneously c) You don't miss SportsCenter 4. Passionate, spontaneous sex on the kitchen floor is: a) Healthy, creative love-play b) Not the sort of thing your wife/girlfriend would ever agree to c) Not the sort of thing your wife/girlfriend need ever find out about 5. Spending the whole night cuddling a woman you've just had sex with is: a) The best part of the experience b) The second best part of the experience c) $100 extra 6. Your girlfriend says she's gained five pounds in weight in the last month. You tell her that it is: a) No concern of yours b) Not a problem - she can join your gym c) A conservative estimate 7. You think today's sensitive, caring man is: a) A myth b) An oxymoron c) A moron 8. Foreplay is to sex as: a) Appetizer is to entree b) Priming is to painting c) A queue is to an amusement park ride 9. Which of the following are you most likely to find yourself saying at the end of a relationship? a) "I hope we can still be friends." b) "I'm not in right now. Please leave a message after the tone...." c) "Welcome to Dumpsville. Population: You." 10. A woman who is uncomfortable watching you masturbate: a) Probably needs a little more time before she can cope with that sort of intimacy b) Is uptight and a waste of time c) Shouldn't have sat next to you on the bus in the first place If you answered 'A' more than 7 times, check your pants to make sure you really are a man. If you answered 'B' more than 7 times, check into therapy, you're still a little confused. If you answered 'C' more than 7 times, call me up. Let's go drinking. ------------------------------------------------------------------ INSTRUCTIONS FOR LIFE 1. Give people more than they expect and do it cheerfully. 2. Memorize your favorite poem. 3. Don't believe all you hear, spend all you have or sleep all you want 4. When you say, "I love you", mean it. 5. When you say, "I'm sorry", look the person in the eye. 6. Be engaged at least six months before you get married. 7. Believe in love at first sight. 8. Never laugh at anyone's dreams. 9. Love deeply and passionately. You might get hurt but it's the only way to live life completely. 10. In disagreements, fight fairly. No name calling. 11. Don't judge people by their relatives. 12. Talk slow but think quick. 13. When someone asks you a question you don't want to answer, smile and ask, "Why do you want to know?". 14. Remember that great love and great achievements involve great risk. 15. Call your mom. 16. Say "bless you" when you hear someone sneeze. 17. When you lose, don't lose the lesson. 18. Remember the three R's: Respect for self; Respect for others;Responsibility for all your actions. 19. Don't let a little dispute injure a great friendship. 20. When you realize you've made a mistake, take immediate steps to correct it. 21. Smile when picking up the phone. The caller will hear it in your voice. 22. Marry a man/woman you love to talk to. As you get older, his/her conversational skills will be as important as any other. 23. Spend some time alone. 24. Open your arms to change, but don't let go of your values. 25. Remember that silence is sometimes the best answer. 26. Read more books and watch less TV. 27. Live a good, honorable life. Then when you get older and think back,you'll get to enjoy it a second time. 28. Trust in God but lock your car. 29. A loving atmosphere in your home is so important. Do all you can to create a tranquil harmonious home. 30. In disagreements with loved ones, deal with the current situation. Don't bring up the past. 31. Read between the lines. 32. Share your knowledge. It's a way to achieve immortality. 33. Be gentle with the earth. 34. Pray. There's immeasurable power in it. 35. Never interrupt when you are being flattered. 36. Mind your own business. 37. Don't trust a man/woman who doesn't close his/her eyes when you kiss them. 38. Once a year, go someplace you've never been before. 39. If you make a lot of money, put it to use helping others while you are living. That is wealth's greatest satisfaction. 40. Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a stroke of luck. 41. Learn the rules then break some. 42. Remember that the best relationship is one where your love for each other is greater than your need for each other. 43. Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it. 44. Remember that your character is your destiny. 45. Approach love and cooking with reckless abandon *********************************************** (The preceding was a product of the"Military Collector Group Post", an international email magazine dedicated to the preservation of history and the equipment that made it. Unlimited circulation of this material is authorized so long as the proper credits to the original authors, and publisher or this group are included. For more information conserning this group contact Dennis Starks at, military-radio-guy@juno.com) ***********************************************