Keywords: monochrome black background Lot-9436-19: A Finger of Light to Find Enemy Planes. Piercing the night for thousands of feet above New York City, this huge anti-aircraft searchlight has the power of 800,000 candles through its five-foot lens to catch marauding enemy planes which might attempt to fly over the city. The unceasing vigil maintained by U.S. anti-aircraft defense prepares it for any eventuality, and not even scheduled commercial planes are immune from examination by the alert searchlights. Office of War Information Photograph, March 12-15, 1942. (2016/01/08). Lot-9436-19: A Finger of Light to Find Enemy Planes. Piercing the night for thousands of feet above New York City, this huge anti-aircraft searchlight has the power of 800,000 candles through its five-foot lens to catch marauding enemy planes which might attempt to fly over the city. The unceasing vigil maintained by U.S. anti-aircraft defense prepares it for any eventuality, and not even scheduled commercial planes are immune from examination by the alert searchlights. Office of War Information Photograph, March 12-15, 1942. (2016/01/08). |