[Milsurplus] Searchlights

[Gary Pewitt]

At first they were just swiveled around to find bomber 
targets.  Later they were directed by acoustic direction finders and 
still later directed by radar.  When radar got more advanced they 
just dropped the searchlights and aimed the guns by radar.
73  Gary



At 11:32 PM 4/22/2009, J. Forster wrote:
>How Were World War II Searchlights Used?
>
>http://www.skylighters.org/howalightworks/index.html>
>
>Regards,
>Jerry Proc VE3FAB
>E-mail: jerry.proc at sympatico.ca
>Web:  <http://jproc.ca> http://jproc.ca
>
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