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Turbinlite creators

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Caption from Vintage Wings of Canada: "Following the first flight of the prototype Turbinlite Douglas Boston III (W8254), four of the “boffins” or scientists involved in the development of the Turbinlite pose with their creation: (left to right) Richard W. “Dick” Becker, Dennis Roberts, aeronautical engineer Leslie Everett “Baron” Baynes and Bruce Benson. All of these men worked for the Alan Muntz Co. which designed and built the searchlight." Photo via No.23Squadron.wordpress At the time of The Blitz, the unarmed Havoc Turbinlite was intended to find the enemy bombers using its RDF equipment and then use the Turbinlite to illuminate the target for accompanying Hurricanes to find and shoot down. taken from fb/Robert Allen