It has been too long since the last post! Here is a little home-brew radio from the Coast Artillery, Panama Canal Department, July 1944.

The caption on the Coast Artillery Command photo reads:

No larger than the palm of his hand is Sgt. Donald Develder’s home-made pee-wee radio, said to be the smallest receiving set in Panama. The Rochester, N.Y. soldier in the Panama Coast Artillery Command was unable to buy a radio, so he made one himself out of a discarded piece of plywood, and spare parts scavenged from junk heaps. It weighs three pounds, is six inches long, six inches wide, and three inches deep. And it plays! Sgt. Develder is shown getting earful of latest invasion news.