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USAAF Army 'Veeps' with VHF Radio


LarryH57

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In 1944 due to a shortage of trained radio men for the newly formed First Allied Airborne Army twenty four members of the 40th Mobile Communications Squadron of the US Army Air Force volunteered to serve with the Airborne. These men were formed in to six teams with four enlisted men, with each team commanded by a combat trained US Airborne Commissioned Officer. Two of these teams were assigned to each of the American Airborne Divisions in Market Garden.

 

These units were equipped with Jeeps and as they carried VHF sets for ground to air comms the men called them 'Veeps'. The radio equipment carried is not known precisely but it is thought to be the American SCR 118 and 624, a H/F and a VHF radio with Voice and W/T capability, and a portable Direction Finder, SCR 634 (the later item may have been in a Jeep trailor).

 

Are there any photos available I could copy anyone?

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