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I would suggest that any 1953 Jeeps were retired by the mid 1970's. The term I recall is "PCC'd". There weren't any at my reserve unit in 1976-77. We still had C42 Radios at that time, and got RT524's about 1978. So, a C42 in a 1953 is appropropriate but not an RT524.