Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The first use of searchlights using carbon arc technology occurred during the Siege of Paris during the Franco-Prussian War. [3] The Royal Navy used searchlights in 1882 to dazzle and prevent Egyptian forces from manning artillery batteries at Alexandria. Later that same year, the French and British forces landed troops under searchlights. [4]
The Lost Evidence is a television program on the History Channel which uses three-dimensional landscapes, reconnaissance photos, eyewitness testimony and documents to reevaluate and recreate key battles of World War II.
Searchlight Control, SLC for short but nicknamed "Elsie", was a British Army VHF-band radar system that provided aiming guidance to an attached searchlight.By combining a searchlight with a radar, the radar did not have to be particularly accurate, it only had to be good enough to get the searchlight beam on the target.
Douglas (Turbinlite) Havoc NF.II (Z2184), at the A&AEE, Boscombe Down. The Helmore/GEC Turbinlite was a 2,700 million candela (2.7 Gcd) searchlight fitted in the nose of a number of British Douglas Havoc night fighters during the early part of the Second World War and around the time of The Blitz.
The Haunted History of Halloween; Heavy Metal; Heroes Under Fire; Hidden Cities; Hidden House History; High Hitler; High Points in History; Hillbilly: The Real Story; History Alive; History Films; History in Color; History Now; History of Angels [19] A History of Britain; A History of God [20] History of the Joke; The History of Sex; History ...
The searchlight turret included a station for an operator, who had the task of changing the light's carbon electrodes when they burned out. [1] The light emerged from a vertical slit that was just 2 inches (5.1 cm) wide by 24 inches (61 cm) tall, a small size which reduced the chance of battle damage to the optical system.
The mysterious sightings continued to capture attention, with KDFW covering the story in November 1999, and documentaries airing on the then Sci-Fi Channel in 2002 and the History Channel's ...
He also authored five books on World War II, including Tarawa: The Story of a Battle (1944) and the definitive History of Marine Corps Aviation in World War II (1952). He was an editor of Time during World War II and later he was editor of The Saturday Evening Post, then vice-president of Curtis Publishing Company. He is portrayed by Rob Lowe.