SCR-536

The SCR-536 was a hand-held radio transceiver used by the US Army Signal Corps in World War II.

[1] The SCR-536 is often considered the first of modern hand-held, self-contained, "handie talkie" transceivers (two-way radios).

It was developed in 1940 by a team led by Don Mitchell, chief engineer for Galvin Manufacturing (now Motorola Solutions) and was the first true hand-held unit to see widespread use.

It was carried among the first waves to hit Omaha Beach at Normandy in June 1944 (and in Italy, Sicily and North Africa before that).

[5] Under the Army Nomenclature System, the BC-611 transceiver was the core component of the SCR-536 Signal Corps Radio set.