FRIENDS OF THE SAAF MUSEUM, SWARTKOP, 6th APRIL 2006.
WIRELESS SECTION REPORT. For MARCH 2006.

Many thanks also go to a fellow amateur James du Toit ZS6JDT who donated a carpet from the Wireless Room.
The normal Saturday mornings radio net with the SA Antique Wireless Association, took place as normal. Nevertheless, the research for aircraft radio history and the search for equipment continues.
We are looking for information on World War 2 Radio and RADAR jamming equipment used by the American “Secret Squadrons of the Eighth” which operated from the UK. The systems used went under the names of; Jackal, Carpet I, Jostle, Dina, Mandrel, ELINT.

HISTORIC DATES.
18/04/1944 First operational use of the Munro bomb (Used for distribution of leaflets. See explanation below)
20/04/1897 Adolf Hilter’s Birthday
25/04/1874 Guglielmo Marconi’s Birthday.
06/05/1937 Hindenburg, crash and destruction at Lakehurst, U.S.A.

The Munroe T-1 BOMB.
This bomb was invented by Capt. James Munroe of the 305th Bomb Group and could be dropped by B-17 Flying Fortresses. He used some old laminated paper containers for M-17 incendiary bombs, 48″ long and 16,5″ diameter. standard M-111 bomb time fuse connected to primer cord in pipes around the sides of the container at 6″ intervals. These “bombs” could be exploded any where between 30 000ft and 2 000ft, a big improvement on the older methods of releasing propaganda leaflets .