I read somewhere that the Japanese navy would select the seamen with the very best eyesite for special night vision trainning with binoculars. This was necessitated by the need to fight at night during the Guadalcanal campaign. You know, the "Tokyo Express" runs down the "Slot" around Savo Island.
And we know how effective the japs were at getting those "long lance" torpedoes to ther targets... the area around Savo's not called "IronBottom Sound", for nothing.
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