There was an old guy at our church that died. After the memorial, somebody asked his son “Any relationship to the Lorantz (?) that invented the radar range finder?”
“That was him - my dad.”
The older gentleman wept a bit. “Your dad saved thousands and thousands of lives. It was a miracle to be able to hit them from so far away and usually on the first shot.”
Thanks. All this happened before I was born, but my dad was in the US Navy in WW2. Ironically, by that time US carriers were dominating, so BB guns were not used against enemy BBs but US designers got it right.