# "CONQUEST OF THE NIGHT" WWII U.S. NAVY USE OF RADAR IN NAVAL COMBAT DOCUMENTARY 28384

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. The film highlights the crucial role of radar technology in naval combat, showing how the Combat Information Center uses radar to detect enemy ships through darkness, fog, and smoke, giving early warnings and precise targeting data. This advanced system guides torpedo launches and gunfire to effectively destroy enemy vessels, as demonstrated by a successful attack on an enemy cruiser. The narration emphasizes that radar and other military technologies, funded by war bonds, are expensive but essential for maintaining superiority and securing the nation’s future, encouraging viewers to support ongoing research and development efforts. 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…

- Kind: Documentary
- Genres: War, Documentary, Industrial and advertising
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/28384ConquestOfTheNight)
- Licence or status: none stated by the archive
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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