WW2 Search Lights
Johnny Johnson
This is light weight video about heavy duty lights. 1.5 meter diameter searchlights seemed to most common for spotting attacking aircraft at night, though there were some that were 3 meters in diameter, which is almost ten feet across. I am pretty sure these lights all used carbon arcs as the source of illumination. I wonder if they caused any radio interference? Spark gap devices were the very first radio transmitters and they had effectively been banned, which leaves me wondering. Perhaps the searchlight housing worked as RF shielding.
A commenter mentions the sinking of the Blucher in the movie King's Choice, which led to this video. It shows the Norwegians using a searchlight to locate warships sailing up the fjord towards Oslo.
The sinking of Blücher - The King's Choice (2016)
ashton
Google also turned up Battle of Drøbak Sound and I put together this map:
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| Battle of Drøbak Sound |
I started watching the movie (on the Roku channel). It's pretty good. Everyone's nervous about the Germans and then these unidentified ships appear in the middle of the night. They fail to respond when challenged, so the Norwegians open fire and bim, bam, boom, there goes the pride of the German navy.
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