Caveat Lector wrote:

Good old rigs
I understand a lot of Hams gave their radios to the military - they were in
short supply
So probably many Hallicrafters went to war and never came back

In the 2006 Passport there's a picture of an American SW transmitter
that somehow fell into the hands of the Red Chinese and was used in the
civil war that Mao won. Said tx is now in a Chinese museum.