US WWII Field Telephone EE-8-A and TS-9-AN Hand Receiver

Description

US WWII Field Telephone EE-8-A , and TS-9-AN Hand Receiver.
Condition is "Used". The Field Phone is in very good condition considering its age, and the dynamo crank turns freely and generates power (on terminals Bat, L2) and rang a phone hooked to the unit. Talk Path/Switch is also working. We used a few other phones to test.
A bit of History:
The EE-8 field telephone was used by the US Military from 1935 into the Vietnam War. It used a wired line with a maximum transmission distance of 7 miles. The EE-8 uses D cell batteries to power the electric signal that carries the signal through the wire to the other phone. It has a hand-cranked dynamo to generate the charge that rings the phone on the other end of the line.
During World War II the phone was preferred to the radio, and the EE-8 was much more reliable than the backpack mounted Walkie-Talkie (SCR-300) and the Handy-Talkie (SCR-536). The phone line, which could be run through a switchboard from a command center, was often run by soldiers during combat situations.