The DC-3 Aviation Museum
Presents:
The
"VOICE"& "SPEAKER"
of the United Nations
By:
Jim Gibson Ford
Lt. Col. U.S.A.F. (ret)
coljimford@earthlink.net
Capt. Jim Ford
However this survived I don't know,
but these are the guys I spent four months with doing it on a shoe string.
We were Nomads.
"It took the bastards four
months to ring us in..."
Capt. Jim Ford
Lt. Lee (ROK Interpreter)
Through 1950 and until April of 1951
both THE VOICE and THE SPEAKER
had the same configuration of sound equipment.
Lt. Lee, Capt. Jim Ford, and a sound operator
The Speaker...
Due to ground fire in which we had one fatality
but really more to benefit from our operational experiences
and experiment with a different concept of operation,
Captain John Snow our Group Engineering Officer
and I reconfigured THE SPEAKER.
We relocated the gimbaled speaker assembly from the cargo bay doors
to a boat fairing under the center line of the wing.
For over fifty years I had kept the negatives of our manufactured elements.
Long since I had lost track of THE SPEAKER in Korea (1951-52).
The Editor of 'The Falling Leaf' Journal in England published our story.
Two Historians in Paris picked it up and contacted me.
I found THE SPEAKER after fifty years.
For additional information click on the button or
title:
Frag Orders
French Historians
The
Voice of The UN
"The
Voice"
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