《Director’s note: One Billion Candela air raid exercise NO.1》
The 1940 German Anti Aircraft Searchlight “Flakscheinwerfer 150cm 37 (i.e. Miss Liberty, NO. 307) with Sonderanhänger 104 (Sd.Ah.104 trailer)” in two-day operation exercise.
Miss Liberty left Vuosaari harbour, Helsinki for her distant new home and joined our ghost troops before Finland’s snow season in 2021. We’ve spent the past whole year working on partial rebuild, inspection/maintenance, and the traditional Chinese version of TM…etc.. before relighting this “Big Eye” of 83-years-old. In spite of seemingly well preparation, we still faced with a sea of troubles in the past two days. It’s totally not as easy as pie for an ordinary man to operate the miscellaneous procedure and make it function normally. Truly the German-trained air defense artillery of the R. O. C. military then was comprised of smart guys.
Miss Liberty, the living museum, the lamp king in Asia…and the Light has finally been lightened up.