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It was largely mistrusted by many commanders then in battle, and Admiral Willis ‘Ching’ Lee was one of the first commanders who had a full understanding of radar, what it was good for, and how to employ it. He nearly single-handedly brought radar guided gunfire into modern naval warfare and once we saw what it could do, we rapidly learned how to employ it.

 

Admiral Lee was a groundbreaker in that regard for sure - he successfully integrated radar into battle tactics while onboard his flaghip USS Washington and reduced the IJN battleship Kirishima into a burning wreck in a matter of minutes during the Second Naval Battle of Guadalcanal - one of only two battleship-on-battleship shootouts of the war I know of.

 

 

[rlmorel]

I think he Admiral Lee, in that one engagement, brought nearly the entire fleet onboard with respect to the advantages of radar-guided naval gunfire.

Pretty impressive.

Have you read “Neptune’s Inferno”?