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A 60-inch searchlight and trailer is part of a display of AAA equipment and vehicles by a group of Normandy-based reenactors
near Sainte-Mere-Eglise, France, June 2020. Photographed by Raynald Aubert.
A 60-inch Sperry searchlight on display in its M-1 trailer at the Air Defense Artillery Museum, Fort Sill, Oklahoma.
A line of searchlights being cleaned and repainted, Fort Edwards, Massachusetts, June 1941.
From the Webmaster’s collection.
Searchlights silhouette a height finder at Fort Monroe, Virginia, December 1940. Via the Town of Phoebus (Virginia) web site.
A 60-inch AAA searchlight on display in Chattanooga, Tennessee, 1945. Photograph by Herbert Lamb,
courtesy of the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga Special Collections.
PFC Edward Czarnik, searchlight operator of Light No. 5, B Battery, 351st Searchlight Battalion, carries cans of carbon rods across a muddy field to his light position, Pietramala, Italy, 24 October 1944. Photo by combat photographer SSGT John Mulcahy,
3131 Signal Service Company, U.S. Army Signal Corps, via The National World War II Museum.
Searchlights along the Thames Estuary, October 1940. Painted by Rudolf Sauter (1895–1977).
Via The Modern British Art Gallery.
Two tools of the skylighting trade in one shot. The SCR-268 in the background was the U.S. Army’s standard early-war anti-aircraft radar system. In early use, as seen here, circa 1942, it was used to guide a searchlight like the one in the foreground to illuminate the target and track it visually from then on. Improvements to later versions gave the 268 the accuracy needed to directly guide the guns without the searchlight helping, which made it easier for the 225th to set up and break down their positions in the field.
AAA men get a closeup view of a 60-inch searchlight at Camp Callan, California, 1941.
Via San Diego State University Library.
In-theater-made patch of the 331st AAA Searchlight Battalion, capturing the essence of the job of the “moonlight cavalry.” Assigned to the 62nd AAA Battalion, the 331st arrived in Italy on 7 July 1944 and landed in southern France on 16 August 1944.
Vintage PX-bought postcard, 1940s. From the Webmaster’s collection.