Скачать или смотреть 🛩️ Nightmare to Night Lords: How the US Navy Conquered Darkness in WWII

October 1943: A lone radar-equipped Corsair hunts a Japanese bomber in the Pacific blackness – the first kill of a revolution. Just months earlier, American troops trembled under the psychological torture of "Washing Machine Charlie's" nocturnal raids, powerless to stop the sleep-deprivation campaign.

This is the untold story of the U.S. Navy's desperate gamble: *VFN-75**, the first dedicated night fighter squadron. Witness how a handful of engineers, scientists, and pilots defied the impossible. They mastered airborne radar, redesigned cockpits for red-lit hell, and learned to land on carriers they couldn't see. Their weapon? The **AN/APS-6 radar* – a miniaturized marvel turning darkness into an American hunting ground.

Follow the evolution from makeshift Corsairs to radar-packed Hellcats, the birth of the world's first night carrier (USS Independence), and tactics so lethal that Japanese pilots chose daylight suicide missions over facing the "invisible hunters." By 1945, a single night over Lingayen Gulf saw **43 Japanese aircraft slaughtered without a single US loss**.

Discover the human cost: 60% washout rates in training, pilots landing with 5 gallons of fuel, and maintenance crews repairing radar by touch in blacked-out hangars. See how technology, courage, and industrial might forged an 18:1 kill ratio and crushed an empire's will to fly after dark.

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