SHOWCASE
10
Field
Equipment from the USA
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EE-8-A
- US-made field telephone with magneto signaling
modified to accommodate dry batteries made in USSR. Used
also as part of RC-290 remote control unit. Made in 1942 by
Connecticut Telephone & Electric.
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The
majority of field telephones supplied to the Red Army from
the USA have been purchased by Amtorg Trading, a New York
corporation with 100-percent USSR capital.
US
Signal Corps EE-8-A and EE-8-B field telephones were
modified to accommodate a pair of 2C (2S) dry batteries of
USSR manufacture. The leather bags of EE-8 telephones
supplied to the Red Army were about 1 1/2" wider than
regular EE-8 bags (WHD = 230 х 250 х 90 mm) and carried no
model identification on the front wall.
All
designations on the telephones as well as their
schematics have been made in Russian (Cyrillic) letters.
There was an instruction manual in Russian supplied with
each field telephone.
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