PPRuNe Forums - View Single Post - Turbinlight airborne searchlight
View Single Post
Old 19th Jan 2007, 20:23
  #5 (permalink)  
virgo
 
Join Date: Jan 2000
Location: sussex
Posts: 347
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes on 0 Posts
getting close

A subsequent development I think.................A Leigh light, not used for night-fighters, a la Boston, but with some success by Coastal Command in illuminating U-Boats for an attack. I remember reading the memoirs of a U-Boat crew commander describing his surfaced night-time transit/battery charge being suddenly interrupted by the dazzling beam of the Leigh-light followed by a stick of depth charges, (which sunk him)
virgo is offline