This was the radio on which the official German surrender message was received!
These are some pictures I took during a visit in the summer of 2005, when the UK government was commemmorating the 60th anniversary of the end of the war. There was a large collection of exhibits set up in St James Park.
| A radio used in the Burma theatre (as shown on map behind), the same radio used by the Normandy Pathfinders. |
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| A radio used in the Burma theatre (as shown on map behind), the same radio used by the Normandy Pathfinders. |
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| HF receiver, type P.C.R. 2, made by Pye Ltd, UK |
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| A spy radio, weighing 16 kg and filling a suitcase! |
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NRO HF receiver, type HRO-M,
used by Montgomery's signal staff
at Luneburg Heath, Germany.
This was the radio on which the official German surrender message was received! |
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| British Type X cipher machine |
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