#203

________, ________, and _______ are working on the 36 inch search light mounted forward of the after stack.
According to Robert F. Sumrall in "Sumner-Gearing Class Destroyers", Naval Institute Press-1995, Searchlights
installed on the Sumner/Gearings "...were intended to illuminate targets at night to allow the gun director optics
to quickly acquire a target... By 1945 however it appeared the searchlights would never be used for their intended
purpose and they were eventually removed during routine overhauls." (See also photo #104.)

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