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Japanese Infantry Never Expected American Night-Vision Carbines To See 70 Yards In Darkness

Discover the untold story of how 150 experimental M3 Carbines with revolutionary infrared "Sniperscope" technology shattered Japanese night combat superiority during the Battle of Okinawa in 1945, when American soldiers could suddenly see and engage enemy targets at 70-125 yards in complete darkness using primitive 30-pound night vision systems that transformed traditional infantry warfare. This meticulously researched historical documentary explores how the secret deployment of early infrared technology, developed by RCA with image intensifier tubes that converted invisible light into green-tinted battlefield imagery, psychologically devastated elite Japanese night fighters who had dominated darkness since the Russo-Japanese War of 1904, forcing them to abandon their primary tactical advantage and contributing to 30% of Japanese small-arms casualties in the first week alone. Through declassified U.S. Army reports, technical specifications from the 96th and 7th Infantry Divisions, and verified combat accounts from Okinawa's bloodiest battles including Kakazu Ridge and Shuri Castle, witness how this forgotten chapter of World War II military technology ended Japan's forty-year mastery of night combat, reduced Japanese night operations by 94%, and established America's technological dominance that would shape modern warfare from Korea to today's thermal imaging systems, proving that in modern combat, the force that owns the night owns the battlefield.