SC Radar aboard Long Island

SC Air/Surface Search Radar

October 8, 2025 PE Matt 0

The CXAM, the US Navy’s first truly successful radar set, was too large to be fitted to smaller combatants like destroyers. It could only be fitted on ships the size of cruisers and larger, most […]

USS Quincy (CA-39)

The Battle of Savo Island

October 5, 2025 PE Matt 0

As the Marines consolidated their gains on Guadalcanal and set out to capture the all-important Lunga point airfield, the Japanese immediately responded to their incursion. The unit responsible for the naval defense of the “south […]