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EE-8-B
(ЕЕ-8-Б)
- 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 1943 by Holtzer-Cabot
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.
Please
note the way of model name spelling (EE-8-B with Cyrillic
"Б" letter) on the schematics.
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