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Army Device Turns Night Into High Noon
Fort Story Virginia saw an Army Transportation Corps demonstration of image intensification an experimental night vision device. An electronic tube boosts illumination 100000 times showing ships landing and troops clearly on three image intensifier displays. Infrared and conventional night vision tools guided the assault as frogmen set markers.
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