They Rejected His Invention For Years — Then It Made Every U-Boat Afraid Of The Dark

A personnel officer with no engineering credentials built, in secret, the weapon that ended Germany's domination of the Atlantic night. The Air Ministry spent two years trying to kill the idea. When the Leigh Light finally reached combat in June 1942, it changed everything. This is the story of Wing Commander Humphrey de Verd Leigh. CHAPTERS 0:00 — Night, 4 June 1942 1:40 — The One-Mile Gap 4:22 — A Vicar's Son Who Learned to Fly 7:30 — The Idea Nobody Authorised 10:30 — The Turbinlite War 14:00 — Inside the Machine 21:00 — The Bay of Biscay Killing Ground 32:00 — An OBE for a War-Winning Weapon 38:00 — Why the Night Died ARCHIVAL FOOTAGE German aircraft attack a convoy — bombing, flak, aircraft shot down: https://archive.org/details/NPC-16528 Convoy under attack in the North Sea (1940) — carrier, fighters, AA guns: https://archive.org/details/NPC-16555 Captured German military films (NARA ARC 64760) — U-boat interior, periscope: https://archive.org/details/gov.archi... Capture of U-505 — German crew surrenders, boarding party: https://archive.org/details/NPC-9050 #WWII #BattleOfTheAtlantic #LeighLight #CoastalCommand #RAF #UBoat #BayOfBiscay #ForgottenHistory #AntiSubmarineWarfare