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In 1942, the U.S. Navy had a deadly problem in the Pacific: at night, Japanese warships struck first — and American cruisers died without ever seeing the enemy.

From the disaster at Savo Island to the brutal fighting off Guadalcanal, Imperial Japanese Navy forces dominated night combat using superior optics and the devastating Type 93 “Long Lance” torpedo.

Then everything changed.

At the Battle of Cape Esperance and during the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal, a new American fire-control system quietly rewrote the rules of naval warfare. It allowed U.S. cruisers and battleships to fire accurately in complete darkness — before Japanese ships even knew they were detected.

This is the story of the technology that ended Japan’s night-fighting supremacy and transformed naval warfare forever.

Featuring:
• Battle of Cape Esperance
• Naval Battle of Guadalcanal
• USS Washington vs Kirishima
• Type 93 Long Lance torpedo
• Early WWII radar development
• Night surface combat in the Pacific

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