Wireless for the Warrior, Compendium 5

Reprint of WW2 British publication ‘Signal Communication Equipment used by Enemy Nations’.

Wireless for the Warrior  Compendium 5 is a facsimile reprint of ‘Signal Communication Equipment used by Enemy Nations’, a British publication providing technical and operation data on captured enemy signal communication equipment originating from Germany, Italy and Japan. It was produced by the Signals Research and Development Establishment (SRDE) in co-operation with MI8 and first issued as a secret document in January 1944. The publication was a result of careful study and examination, based on captured equipment and handbooks, intended as a guide to the reuse of the equipment. At first glance the publication may be considered as the British counterpart of the German ‘Kennblätter fremden Geräts, Heft 13, Nachrichtengerät’ (reprinted in WftW Compendium 3 and 4). However, the individual entries in ‘Signal Communication Equipment used by Enemy Nations’ are far more detailed and accurate. In addition it provided many practical details such as hints on the operation and maintenance of the sets, glossaries, nomenclatures with an explanation of the type numbering systems, and connections of plugs, sockets and valve bases. This reprint reproduces the publication as it was originally issued, including all supplements with the amendment changes already carried out.