In an attempt to stop propagating “bad gouge” and circular research, I will endeavor to put accurate references and footnotes here on some key items.  This is also your Required Reading List.

This will be a work in progress.  In no particular order for now:

1) MACSOG Document Study, Draft, 10JULY70, MACSOG Communications; Appendix G, Declassified, as redacted.

www.dod.gov/pubs/foi/reading_room/520-17.pdf

2)   The Lonely Vigil by Walter Lord.  Coast watchers in the Solomons.

3)   Military Communications, A Test for Technology, The US Army in Vietnam,  John D Bergen, 1986

4)   The US Army in WWII, The Technical Series, The Signal Corps, The Test.  Ken Roberts Greenfield, Department of the Army, 1957

5) The US Army in WWII, The Technical Series, The Signal Corps, The Outcome. George Thompson, Department of the Army, 1966

6)  The Escape Factory, Lloyd R. Shoemaker, 1990

7)  MACSOG Document Study, Draft, 10JULY70, Maritime Operations; Annex D to Appendix C, Declassified, as redacted.

8)  Coastal Raiders, Mr Tran Do Cam; as translated, former OIC PTF’s 2 and 11, RVN  2000

9)  Janes Fighting Ships, 1975

10)  PTFNASTY.COM Dan Withers excellent website about all things PTF

11)  First into Nagasaki:  The Censored Eyewitness Dispatches on Post-Atomic Japan and its Prisoners of War George Weller, Anthony Weller, Walter Cronkite

12)  Conduct Under Fire:  Four American Doctors and their Fight for Life as Prisoners of the Japanese, 1941-1945.  By John Glusman

13) Know Your PT Boat The Bureau of Ships, US Navy, Technical Publication No. 9, NAVSHIPS 250-222-1, 15 JULY 1945.

14) Motor Torpedo Boats, Tactical Orders and Doctrine Headquarters CinC U.S. Fleet, July1942

15)  WWW.PTFNASTY.COM Excellent website full of PTF info

16)  WWW.WARBOATS.ORG Another excellent website with PTF info

17)  PT Boats At War, World War II to Vietnam Normal Palomar, Samuel Morison, MBI Publishing Company 1999.

18) The Gulf Raiders, Tran Do Cam; May 2000. Tran was a PTF skipper in the RVN Navy providing an excellent, unique operational narrative.

19) Receivers and Transmitters RT-66/GRC, RT-67/GRC and RT-68/GRC Technical Manual TM11-289 Department of the Army

20) Vietnam Studies: Division – Level Communications 1962-1973 LTG. Charles Myer, Department of the Army 1982.

21) The Surplus Handbook: Receivers and Transmitters, Caringella and Clark; Editors and Engineers Ltd., 1959.

22) Navaho Code Talkers: WW2 Fact Sheet; www.history.navy.mil

23) www.cryptomuseum.com An excellent Dutch website with good references to the RS-6 set

24) www.williammaloney.com See Bill’s excellent website on military museums and much more.