Linesman Iltis

[JD Baillie]

Jon,

Greetings and good day on this 14th of April. Thanks for asking but my 152 has languished (though dry) as I got caught up in a British MOD FFR Land Rover. I'm almost back to the 152 and recently started to look again for the interior tables, racks and charging panel as per the C42 installation layout on that CD... so if you happen to hear of any of that stuff sitting around please, please send me a PM. I'm still out here though mostly lurking. Robert Dabkowski asked me to send him a pic of the inside of my truck so he would know what to look for in his travels... but there's nothing at all in the back except a little peeling paint. I also continue to canvas anyone I know for pictures of an M152 during its service life, either in field or garrison.
Funny that of all the radops out here no one seems to have kept any pics. Hm.

Couldn't resist the Iltis post. Didn't think anyone else would comment on the Jumper... I can't get in my M152, even if it IS a Rad Truck, without 50 bizzilion memories flooding back. What is it? The smell of tarred canvas and grease?

Never spent time in 1 Line Tp. Worked for and with some very outstanding signalmen, some of whom might have crossed your path at some point as it was a relatively small group during the 60s and 70s. Too many to list by name, but if you have a specific person who might have washed up out here I might know of him/her. My time was out west between school, work and laterly family.

How is your C15A doing? Are there pictures posted somewhere? If you are interested here's a link to part of the LR project. You can see Babe peeking out from the back of a couple of pics.
http://www.signaltelecom.ca/Tent%20Pages.html

Cheers
JD