Cool WWII message book added to Lost Highway...

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Picked up this NOS U.S. Army Signal Corps Message Book(M-210-A) on ebay. The seller found an entire box of them in a warehouse unopened. Dated 1943.

There's 25 sets of message forms in triplicate for regular use, 3 sets in duplicate for pigeon use, and 25 sheets of tracing paper. There's two sets of instructions and a "partial list of abbreviations" page.

A message would be cryptographed for transmission by radio.

My use for this book in my arcade is slightly different. I'm not one to put things under a glass case, so I wrote on the first page. The book's contents will be checked by the military each time they come out to the booth for maintenance and to replenish supplies.

I'm working on a little story(which I will release at a later date); and here's what I wrote in the book:

URGENT/Date 3-16-1945

To: Echo 1, United States Army Missile Command

-B-29 sucked into vortex. Crew disappeared
-UFO battery downed our B-29 in Red Sector A
-LT Preston Reed(co-pilot) and myself bailed out
-Lost sight of LT Reed on descent to earth
-Lost communications with Echo 1 using BC-1000 radio
-Emerg Line dead. Teleport/Timewarp also dead
-Heading east on Lost Hwy in search of LT Reed and Command Post
-UFO using searchlight to track us. Send help asap

signed- Commanding Officer Sky Raider Bomber Squadron-18 / Time-2020
-Blake Connor- Colonel U.S. Army Air Force

I used a few of the abbreviations listed in the book in the actual written text. I love this stuff!!

Here's some pics:

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Awesome!

A book like that would also make a nifty 'Guest Sign in' book for all the visitors who stop by the arcade. Might be fun to look at it years down the road.....

Alan
 
Those books are for a war-time cipher machine:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M-209

I actually have one of these code machines I'm likely to put on eBay in the next few weeks. Probably a $2000 toy to someone, though someone just bought half a machine on eBay for just over $200. (half a machine isn't as much fun though...)
 
Awesome!

A book like that would also make a nifty 'Guest Sign in' book for all the visitors who stop by the arcade. Might be fun to look at it years down the road.....

Alan

Cool idea, Alan! I remember you mentioning something similar to this to me....
 
Those books are for a war-time cipher machine:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M-209

I actually have one of these code machines I'm likely to put on eBay in the next few weeks. Probably a $2000 toy to someone, though someone just bought half a machine on eBay for just over $200. (half a machine isn't as much fun though...)


Very cool, thanks for that informative link....
 
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