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Originally Posted by Mike Cecil
....also supplied to US Forces under Reciprocal Lend Lease (RLL) arrangements.
Mike C
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Ah yes , true
The Australian radio industry manufactured various equipments for the US forces in the SWPA. A few Aust. sets have turned up in the USA . And, one of the GMH ambulance Jeeps has turned up over there as well . Seems like the yanks took a few things home when they left.
I have seen US army markings on these Aust. radio types
AWA AT21
AWA 3BZ
AWA AMR 101
Radio Corps. ATR4
I believe they also used the locally made mobile radar sets , because they were better than the US made sets. There was a few articles published in EA magazine years ago on this topic, the Aust. designed and built mobile radar sets were considered the best . Until the rest of the world caught up and overtook .
Mike