[Afterguard]

Me, too. Then the Kinder, Gentler Navy removed our 20 million candlepower spotlights. Man, did turning them on make Soviet crews crap their pants!

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Dude, you go as far back as I do! P-3s haven’t had searchlights on them since the early A models in the mid-70s. loved to illuminate trawlers, but was always a little concerned by the flaming copper slag that dribbled into the basket at the bottom of the searchlight.... Lol.

[maine yankee]

When I got to my squardon, we stil had a couple Willy vickers.

The great news was the bomb bays would hold more kegs than the P-2V’s for the run up to Kef.