“Night Glasses” Train Soldiers To Fight in the Dark (Dec, 1940)
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Source: Popular Science ( More articles from this issue )
Issue: Dec, 1940
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“Night Glasses” Train Soldiers To Fight in the Dark
For practice in fighting in the dark, cadets in a British officers’ training unit wear special “night glasses” during daytime maneuvers. Fitted with dark lenses, the glasses reproduce the visibility conditions that would be encountered at night. In this way, the young soldiers learn to recognize the landscape as it appears in darkness, and acquire skill in taking “pot shots” when they cannot see their rifle sights. In the photograph above, several cadets are using the glasses which turn day into night.
So much easier than waiting for the sun to go down…
Comment by Stannous — August 18, 2006 @ 11:05 am
After the sun goes down, though, is when they put on their “Day Glasses”…
Comment by SpaceMonkeyX — August 18, 2006 @ 2:08 pm
Are these the “Lone Rangers”… where’s Tonto?
Comment by Kemo-sabe — August 19, 2006 @ 6:29 am
Why is this under “unpractical”? Don’t they still use these today?
Comment by huh — July 14, 2008 @ 5:21 am