A Lincoln man operates a unique business where people can rent World War II searchlights and use them for everything from Christmas Living Nativity scenes to grand openings.

Fox Searchlight Pictures enters the awards conversation this year with a pair of stories set during World War II that are radically different in tone. With Jojo Rabbit, director Taika Waititi ...

Each searchlight site had nine females and each female had their own specific job on the searchlight. There are four of us together today; this young lady here, Alma, was the Lister operator ...

As I told the searchlight tale to a friend, she offered the, er, illuminating, insight I lacked in 1966. “Anyone standing near an 800 million candlepower searchlight is a target.

KODIAK, Alaska (AP) - A restored World War II searchlight has taken its place at the Kodiak Military History Museum and is now by a bunker that used to light the skies with similar technology. Two ...

The damned searchlights still held us. 2500 - 3000 - 3500 - 3700 feet then they were gone as suddenly as they came, blackness all around.

A NORTH-EAST man who decided to research his father's wartime career ended up writing a history of the searchlight operators.

I flew an airborne searchlight in 1942/3! Thirty-nine Havoc IIs. were modified to carry 2700 million candlepower Turbinlite searchlights in their noses, and had all their armament deleted. The ...

Wartime Memories- 21 Searchlight Militia You are browsing in: Archive List > British Army Archive List > World > France Contributed by Wymondham Learning Centre People in story: Bill Greenfield ...