Throat microphone use in WW2
On a separate thread (A very good military read) on the Military Forum I have mentioned 'Warlike Sketches 1939-1945' by Arrol Macfarlane in which the author recounts in some detail his life as a AOP pilot during the advance through Italy in WW2.
In the book there are a number of references to the use of the 'Larynga-phone'. Am I correct in assuming this is what I would call a throat-mike? Not that I had thought much about it but my impression had been that these were something the USAAF used in their bombers but not used in RAF/Army aviation in WW2.
Would the AOP pilot have routinely used a headset plus larynga-phone rather than a helmet/mask combination?
In 'Warlike Sketches' the author recounts a couple of incidents where, having taken up a non-aviator fellow officer, he was treated to the larynga-phone amplified sound of his colleagues noisily throwing-up as a result of flak-avoiding manoeuvres.
Last edited by olympus; 11th Mar 2017 at 15:07.
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