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.

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

Whissendine lies approximately 4 miles from R.A.F. Cottesmore, a key R.A.F. and U.S.A. base during the war. Being so placed, a Searchlight Unit was based down a small lane about half a mile out of ...

Deep in Arizona’s Butler Valley lies Camp Bouse—a covert World War II training site where U.S. troops tested a “Gizmo,” a ...

Henry E. Haferkorn, Searchlights: A Short, Annotated Bibliography of their Design and their Use in Peace and War, Professional Memoirs, Corps of Engineers, United States Army, and Engineer Department ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...