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Leigh Light
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Leigh Light was a British World War II era anti-submarine device used in the Second Battle of the Atlantic. It was a powerful carbon arc searchlight of 24 inches diameter fitted to a number of the British Royal Air Force's Coastal Command patrol bombers to help them spot surfaced German U-boats at night. It was successfully used from June 1942 onwards to attack U-boats recharging their batteries on the surface at night. Up to then they had been relatively safe from attack at night. The aircraft would approach the submarine using its ASV radar and only switch on the searchlight beam during the final approach. The U-boat would not have sufficient time to dive and the bomb aimer would have a clear view of the target. It was so successful that German submarines were forced to switch to daytime battery charging when they could at least see aircraft approaching. After its introduction Allied shipping losses from U boats dropped from 600,000 to 200,000 tons per month.
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- Titel Leigh Light
- Format Fachbuch
- EAN 9786131660221
- Herausgeber Alphascript Publishing
- Anzahl Seiten 136
- Editor Frederic P. Miller, Agnes F. Vandome, John McBrewster
- Genre Geschichte
- GTIN 09786131660221
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