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USMC artillery radios
Posted by Mike Winters on Monday, August 4, 2014 8:15 PM

I need references/photos that can identify the radios used by Marine artillery crews in 1945. I'm at work on a vignette of a 105 mm site in Iwo Jima.  Any ideas?

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Posted by cwalker3 on Tuesday, August 5, 2014 1:24 PM

I found this doing a Google search. The radio set looks like an SCR-300.

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Posted by Mike Winters on Tuesday, August 5, 2014 3:47 PM

SCR 300 is also what I guessed. Yet I can't see the radio unit, only the operator with headphones. I might have to go ahead with my guess

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Posted by Rob Gronovius on Tuesday, August 5, 2014 9:30 PM
Didn't the old Peerless Max 155mm come with a radio set? Not sure if the Testors Italeri reissue included the radio set though. I'll look at my old peerless Max kit.
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Posted by Jon_a_its on Wednesday, August 6, 2014 6:23 AM

It did, also in the Airfix boxing, something the size of a shed & sat on the trails when in transport mode.

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Posted by EasyMike on Wednesday, August 6, 2014 10:04 AM

... I can't see the radio unit...

It's a posed pic.  Notice all the smiles for the benefit of the folks back home?  My money says the talker's headset and microphone are not plugged in.

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Posted by stikpusher on Wednesday, August 6, 2014 1:19 PM

I came up with these two radios used by Marines on Iwo. But I do not know if they would be used at the Artillery battery and position level, of just if those would have field phones linked in to the Fire Direction Center where a non man portable radio would be used.

SCR-536 "handy talkie"

SCR-300 Manpack type

 

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Posted by qmiester on Thursday, August 7, 2014 6:50 AM

Actually, the headset/mike setup shown are more than likely to hooked up and working - the radios are not located at the tubes, rather in the TOC (Tactical Operations Center).  That's why artillery batteries used to have Wire Commo Teams.

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Posted by Mike Winters on Thursday, August 7, 2014 8:13 AM

So, the headset at the tube connects by wire to a radio at the TOC some distance away?

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Posted by stikpusher on Thursday, August 7, 2014 11:35 AM

But wire hooks into phones most of the time. Unless you are using a remote set up like a AN/GRA-39, which: 1) I do not know how old it is, and 2) is a speaker and mic set up, I do not recall it having a head set capability... (yes I spent many years as a commo sergeant, and some of our gear was pretty old school)

 

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Posted by qmiester on Friday, August 8, 2014 6:19 AM

The mic/head phone in the pic appear to be one of the old (new in those days) voice operated units preferred by the navy aboard ship - it generates its own power when you talk into it - good for about a 1/4 mile or so thru wire.

Quincy
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