Fighting in the Dark: Naval Combat at Night: 1904-1944 OHara Vincent
Fighting in the Dark: Naval Combat at Night: 1904-1944 OHara Vincent Before the twentieth century ships when relied upon visual signaling, vessels beyond range of sight or a cannon shot, were blind,…
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Fighting in the Dark: Naval Combat at Night: 1904-1944 OHara Vincent
Before the twentieth century ships when relied upon visual signaling, vessels beyond range of sight or a cannon shot, were blind, deaf, and dumb in the dark, making night battles at sea rare, and near always accidental. The process by which navies integrated these new tools of war and turned the dark into a medium for effective combat, however, was long and difficult.Fighting in the Dark tells the story of surface naval combat at night from the Russo-Japanese War through World War II. The introduction of certain technologies like the torpedo, the searchlight, radio and then radar, transformed naval warfare by making night combat feasible and, in some cases, desirable.
It does this by examining seven periods focusing on the Imperial Russian Navy in 1904-1905, the The book is about the process of confronting and mastering problems brought on by technological change during war.
In The Fighting
Fighting at the Legal Boundaries
AT SUNDOWN Shots in the Dark
The Sun at Night