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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.
The 8 kilowatt, direct current generator that powered the searchlight was driven by a six-cylinder, BMW engine, of a type used in pre-war cars. Typical tactics were to sweep the search light in an S-shaped pattern along the targets' expected course with the beam dispersed, once the target was detected, it was then tracked using the focused beam ...
The Ku Klux Klan: A Secret History; The Last Days of World War II; Last Stand of the 300; Lee and Grant; Lee Harvey Oswald: 48 Hours to Live; Legacy of Star Wars; Liberty's Kids; Life After People; The Lincoln Assassination; Live From '69: Moon Landing; Lock n' Load with R. Lee Ermey; The Long March; The Lost Evidence; The Lost Kennedy Home ...
ATS officers-in-training crew a 90 cm searchlight in Western Command, 1944. A searchlight (or spotlight) is an apparatus that combines an extremely bright source (traditionally a carbon arc lamp) with a mirrored parabolic reflector to project a powerful beam of light of approximately parallel rays in a particular direction.
TV 594 – Famous Generals – Patton (B&W – 1963) Military career of the colorful General George S. Patton, with focus on his World War II action in Africa and Europe. TV 595 – Famous Generals – Arnold (B&W – 1963) General "Hap" Arnold's career during World War II, which is also the story of the growth of the present-day Air Force.
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.
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.
S/L sites were subject to enemy attack and usually had light machine guns for self-defence, but Defence Regulations prohibited women from firing them. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] In 1941 a secret trial called the Newark experiment was carried out in AA Command to find out if women would be able to carry out the duties required in searchlight regiments. [ 5 ]