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Japanese Navy Never Knew American Subs Had Radar — Until 1,200 Ships Vanished at Night

November 1943. A Japanese convoy steams through the Philippine Sea in total darkness, believing they're safe from submarine attack. After all, submarines hunt by periscope during daylight—at night, they're blind. But 20 miles away, USS Pargo already knows exactly where they are. Not from visual sighting. Not from periscope observation. But from a revolutionary technology the Japanese Navy never detected: submarine-mounted radar.

This is the incredible true story of how American submarines gained an invisible technological advantage that would sink approximately 1,200 Japanese ships over three years of warfare. The SJ radar system transformed night from a sanctuary into a killing field, allowing U.S. submarines to see enemy convoys at 20+ miles while remaining completely undetected.

From the claustrophobic terror of depth charge attacks to the strategic collapse of Japan's merchant marine, this is the untold story of technological asymmetry so complete that the enemy never even understood what weapon was being used against them.

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