CONQUEST OF THE NIGHT
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Year Published: 1945
Format: 16mm
Description: Dating to 1945, CONQUEST OF THE NIGHT shows the uses of one of the Allies' great weapons developments -- radar. Here the technology is used at sea to locate and destroy a Japanese ship. The combat information center aboard the American ship relays facts derived by radar on the range, speed, direction, etc., of the target, in total darkness. The U.S. ship fires its torpedoes. As the torpedoes hit, the ship fires a salvo. Radar shows the salvo to be too long; the range is corrected and the enemy ship is sunk. The film states that future developments of radar depend on money from the sale of Victory bonds…. Radar was secretly developed by several nations before and during World War II. The term RADAR was coined in 1940 by the United States Navy as an acronym for RAdio Detection And Ranging.The term radar has since entered English and other languages as a common noun, losing all capitalization.
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[Music] [Applause] [Music] take it easy fellows take it easy while you can combat Information Center is alert its radars probing the darkness ready to give early warning of any unseen enemy [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] con combat rate table bearing 3/4 full range 3 5 8 2 below you got to eject me right of course 1 3 9 speed 300 course 139 speed 300 how bad is con give me a course to arrive 6,000 yards 40 degrees on the starboard bow leading ship of grade able over this combat will go out to get that Kent yo 6000 yards 40 degrees on starboard bow speed 3 old course 0:05 time 12 minutes on this combat force to attack point zero zero five attack one in 12 minutes over Roger prepare to fire five torpedo step setting 16 action starboard over his combat Roger out then light for surface action in the gun director the fire control radar goes to work enemy force at thirty-five thousand yards bearing three four four course one three nine speed three ol fantastic what radar tells us all this with radar our ships can see from smoke through fog through darkness radar puts a finger on the unseen enemy that's our guns reach out to destroy him before he even knows we're there [Music] radial bearing 349 range 108 double-o two minutes to take point on combat two minutes to attack point last one train out the starboard match pointed we can launch torpedoes any time now but the closer you get the better so you can wait too long [Music] what do you make up by the tell sir March this one smaller ring for the nearest large patrol comment target able looks like two cruisers and a destroyer range closing all guns move come on 10 3 4 & 5 [Music] Filan get about here raid evil berry 3/5 whole range 90mm rates 9 8 7 [Music] on combat run effective range for intermediate speed torpedoes [Music] rage a teak double-o on combat one minute to attack point con Roger out [Music] con combat we're close enough now for high-speed torpedoes rate in Oh double Oh [Music] range 75 double Oh [Music] range six-five double Oh [Music] great 6:02 below attack point captain coming left three-one-seven stand by to fire computer-controlled combat standby [Music] ar-15 one I feel like you [Music] our three [Music] eta three minutes on this combat repeater should hit in three minutes at zero one zero two two guess the time and cost two five five control combat and salvo from Cosway for making 180-degree turn actual comport pro-life all gun action deport range for eight double Oh [Music] [Music] [Music] rain or five double Oh what's your man gonna do Kissin [Music] [Music] they're the face [Music] alright let's finish you off you ready Tarasov oh they're on their way you can see the shells as they fly through space there's a slight in range we're over down to double-o ready fire salvo [Music] all guns salvo fire interval four seconds [Music] branch one enemy Cruiser we have met the enemy and they are ours our radar found them through the darkness told us their course their speed their disposition radar guided our torpedoes aimed our guns radars cost us hundreds of millions and it was worth it our technical equipment is the best in the world war bonds people but it will cost us millions more to maintain that superiority millions for further research millions for further development the future security of our nation depends upon such developments and they are all expensive those millions must come from victory bonds buy bonds and 12 [Music] and
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