My 1946 Poona memories, now being mined, include an American radio inside a khaki crackle-painted heavy metal case about 18ins x 12 x 12. Daddy said it was a welfare set which he had obtained from US surplus. It had a tuning dial, a volume knob and another mysteriously labelled BAND: SW, MW, LW. At five years old I was very annoyed when I selected BAND and nothing happened ... it took a while for Daddy to explain that military bands were in scarce supply inside US welfare sets.