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Originally Posted by Vandecker
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Good catch, I will stand corrected regarding deployable beacon floats.
Yet, the almost total lack of anecdotal accounts of these beacon's effective (or indeed not so effective use) could be taken as evidence that their use was never widespread or that they actually mitigated the long-range communications issues facing the Front boats.
I should add the the USA had the first primative flight data recorders in commercial use by 1938 so there was recording technology out there, just highly specialized and very expensive.