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Japanese Called This Plane The Nightmare — It Hunted Them While They Slept

The P-61 Black Widow was America’s first purpose-built night fighter of WW2. On June 30, 1944 over Saipan, it scored its first night kill hunting Japanese bombers known as “Washing Machine Charlie.” June 30, 1944. Two in the morning. Saipan. Lieutenant Dale Haberman sits in the cockpit of a massive black aircraft, waiting. His radar operator watches a glowing green scope in complete darkness. For months, Japanese bombers have tormented American troops every single night. They called them "Washing Machine Charlie." No one could stop them. Tonight, that changes. Tonight, America's first purpose-built night fighter scores its first kill. The P-61 Black Widow has arrived. This is the forgotten story of the aircraft that hunted in total darkness. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📌 IN THIS VIDEO: • First operational P-61 night kill — June 30, 1944, Saipan • How "Washing Machine Charlie" terrorized American troops for 2 years • The revolutionary SCR-720 radar that could find aircraft 6 miles away • Major Carroll Smith's incredible 4 kills in one night — December 1944 • The controversial Mosquito vs P-61 fly-off in England • Herman Ernst becoming an ace with 3 kills in one night • Lady in the Dark's final kills — the last aerial victories of WW2 • Why only 4 Black Widows survive today ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎬 CHAPTERS: 00:00 — The Nightmare over Saipan 02:18 — America's night fighter crisis 03:51 — Building the Black Widow 08:18 — Radar, crew, and eighteen months of training 10:43 — First blood over the Pacific 13:47 — Seven kills in one night — Mindoro 19:24 — Black Widows over Europe 23:09 — From the Bulge to VE-Day 25:31 — The last aerial victories of World War Two 28:25 — Legacy of the Black Widow ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📊 KEY FACTS: • First flight: May 26, 1942 • Total built: 742 aircraft • Combat record: 127 enemy aircraft + 18 V-1s destroyed • Loss rate: 0.5% — lowest of any American fighter • Only 4 P-61s lost to enemy action in entire war • Crew: 3 (pilot, radar operator, gunner) • Armament: 4× 20mm cannons + 4× .50 cal machine guns • Radar range: Up to 6 miles in complete darkness • Top speed: 366 mph • Carroll Smith: 7 kills — highest-scoring US night fighter ace ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🏅 NOTABLE CREWS: • Lt. Dale Haberman & Lt. Ray Mooney — First P-61 kill • Major Carroll Smith & Lt. Philip Porter — 4 kills in one night • Lt. Herman Ernst & Lt. Edward Kopsel — 3 kills in one night, aces • Lt. Lee Kendall & Lt. John Scheerer — Last kills of WW2 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📚 SOURCES: • US Army Air Forces Historical Studies • National Archives — Night Fighter Squadron Records • "Queen of the Midnight Skies" — Garry Pape • "P-61 Black Widow Units of World War 2" — Warren Thompson • 6th, 418th, 422nd Night Fighter Squadron Histories • Pilot memoirs and official after-action reports • James Dickey's wartime correspondence ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⚠️ DISCLAIMER: This documentary uses AI-generated narration and imagery for educational visualization of historical events. All facts presented are based on documented historical sources, military archives, and academic research. Some scenes are artistic recreations intended to illustrate historical narratives. This content is created for educational purposes to preserve and share the history of World War 2. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔔 Subscribe for more hidden stories of World War 2! #WW2 #P61BlackWidow #NightFighter #Aviation #MilitaryHistory #WW2Documentary ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ © All archival photographs are in the public domain or used under fair use for educational purposes. This video is intended for historical education.