Re: Class A Question

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In a message dated 02/04/2003 10:25:16 PM Mountain Standard Time, unclgene@pacbell.net writes:


>  will never forgive the Flattery Battery Company, the Japanese manufacturer
> of batteries for the SCR-300. Their batteries weighed about 25 pounds and
> were not worth their weight in sand.


I guess the 5th RCT was not alone with having dead batteries right out of the box.   I can remember considering myself lucky if one worked out of a carton of them, plus they did not last long.

That 300 radio had to be the heaviest radio we had to carry on patrol or into combat.  I only saw 2 sets of the walkie - talkie radios in my year there, plus they were just junk as they hardly ever worked.

For what was considered a modern army, we were using items from WW II and at times I thought WW I as well.  My water cooled MG was dated 1917.


     John Sonley   Korea 1951