Japan Was Stunned When USS Washington Opened Fire in Darkness
Автор: WWII Battlefield Memoirs
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On the night of 14–15 November 1942, in the black waters off Guadalcanal, the battleship USS Washington faced the Imperial Japanese Navy in one of the last great surface duels of World War II. Guided only by radar, Washington detected the battleship Kirishima long before the Japanese even knew she was there. At 23,000 yards — in total darkness — Washington’s main battery of 16-inch guns roared to life. Within minutes, over 800 heavy shells and dozens of secondary rounds tore through the night, smashing Kirishima with radar-directed precision. Japan’s gunners fired blind; the Americans fired with science.
When the smoke cleared, Kirishima was burning and sinking, her guns silenced, her hull ripped apart. Washington escaped untouched — the only U.S. battleship to singlehandedly sink an enemy battleship in a night action. Japan’s navy, trained for decades in visual gunnery, was shocked by what had happened: a battle fought and won in complete darkness, where radar, not eyesight, decided victory. The clash off Guadalcanal proved the future of naval warfare — and marked the night Japan learned that the ocean itself could no longer hide them.
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