On the night of November 13th, 1942, the 16-inch main guns of the USS Washington fired in a salvo. The captain commanding the naval guns wore thick

On the night of November 13th, 1942, the 16-inch main guns of the USS Washington fired in a salvo. The captain commanding the naval guns wore thick, roundmed glasses. His vision was severely impaired. Yet, in the darkness of Ironbottom Sound, he struck Japanese warships one by one with precision, piercing them through.

Radar was his scope. The Washington was the sniper rifle in his hands. This man who made giant cannons as obedient as rifles was Willis Augustus Lee. A man who brought the precision of the shooting range to the bridge of a battleship. While other commanders were still groping for enemy shadows in the dark, he had already locked onto his targets.

Minutes later, fire light illuminated the sea surface and the Japanese battleship Kirishima sank. History rarely evaluates him this way, but if a phrase had to be chosen, it could only be the man who fought naval battles with a sniper’s logic. In 1888, Lee was born in a small town in Kentucky.

His father was a local judge whose obsession with shooting was passed on to his son without reservation. By the age of 10, young Lee was accurately shooting down birds in flight with a 22 caliber rifle, becoming the town’s famous pest terminator. At that time, he was full of the wildness of a mischievous child. His greatest pleasure was causing destruction.

Yet, no one expected that a prank would change his life. One day, Lee and his brother filled a coffee can with black powder. But after lighting the fuse, they waited and waited for the explosion that didn’t come. Curious, he leaned in to check the can. Just as he opened it, a violent explosion swept over him, and black powder fragments splattered his face and eyes.

The severe burns made everyone think he would be completely blind. Fortunately, his vision eventually recovered somewhat, but it left permanent damage, and from then on, he could never be without thick glasses. This defect did not trap his shooting talent. Instead, it made him focus more on the precision of aiming. Perhaps in his blurred field of vision, he could always lock onto the most core target.

Due to his mischievous nature, Lee was sent to the United States Naval Academy at the age of 16, as his father hoped the military camp would temper his character. Here, due to his surname sounding like a Chinese persons and his love for the Far East, he earned the nickname Ching Lee. No one would associate this white lad with Asia, but wearing round rimmed glasses surnamed Lee and obsessed with Asian history, even adding Chinese characters to his signature, he indeed had the look of an oriental scholar. During his four years

at the military academy, Lee had no interest in the standard curriculum, seeking only to complete his studies as soon as possible and devote himself to his favorite shooting career. He joined the Navy shooting team and stood out with his amazing talent. In his senior year, he qualified to represent the Navy in the National Rifle Association shooting competition.

That competition gathered 684 elites. Lee overcame all obstacles in the rifle event, accurately hitting the bullseye from 1,000 yd away, and took the championship before lunch. Unable to stop, he signed up for the pistol competition on a whim. Even though his pistol exploded due to excessive ammunition during the match, injuring his hand, he didn’t care at all.

He took the pistol handed by his companion and finished the remaining shots with his unskilled left hand, finally bagging a double championship and becoming the first person in American history to win both rifle and pistol championships in the same national competition. Lee, graduating with two gold medals, encountered an unexpected obstacle.

During the physical examination, he was judged ineligible for naval service due to poor eyesight. No one cared about this sharpshooter who had just hit the bullseye from 1,000 yards a week ago, possessing precision beyond ordinary people just by wearing glasses. Helpless, Lee cheated during the vision test and finally entered the Navy as he wished, serving as a probationary officer on multiple warships and accumulating combat experience.

During this time, he published his first article on pistol shooting in the Naval Institute proceedings, still attaching his Chinese signature at the end. The sentence in the article, “Seek accuracy first, then speed,” was similar to the famous quote by the renowned gunman Wyatt Herp. Both were the ultimate interpretation of the way of shooting.

Not long after, Lee boarded the battleship USS New Hampshire, coinciding with the outbreak of the Veraracruz incident. In 1914, during the Mexican Revolution, the Tampico affair triggered a diplomatic crisis between the US and Mexico. US President Wilson ordered the Navy and Marine Corps to go to Mexico to seize illegally inflowing guns.

At that time, there was no professional amphibious landing equipment. The US military could only go ashore in small boats, but weresuppressed by Mexican snipers hiding on rooftops and tall buildings, unable to move. Just then, Lee stepped forward, sitting at a street corner without any cover, allowing the enemy to shoot.

Every time a gunshot rang out, he could instantly lock onto the enemy’s position and counterattack with precision, never missing. When asked about this after the war, Lee just said lightly, “I think I got a few.” But the comrades present knew clearly that he had defeated the enemy snipers single-handedly, killing at least 12 people and even deliberately gave the enemy the chance to shoot first.

In addition to this, he braved a hail of bullets to save a soldier. By virtue of this bravery, he was nominated for promotion, but was rejected again due to vision problems. This time his superiors protested collectively. The captain of the New Hampshire wrote in a recommendation letter, “I saw with my own eyes that he knocked down an enemy with a scope from 800 yd away.

His eyesight is good enough.” Under the strong recommendation of everyone, Lee’s promotion was reconsidered. Subsequently, he was transferred inland, responsible for assisting factories in optimizing naval material production. During his time inland, Lee met his wife and also ushered in the outbreak of World War I.

He was sent to Europe, but was not assigned to a combat ship and was never able to truly devote himself to the battlefield. After the end of World War I, at the 1920 Antworp Olympics, Lee welcomed his peak moment. He swept seven medals, including five gold medals, one silver medal, and one bronze medal, setting a record for the number of individual medals in a single Olympic Games.

This record was not broken until 1980. At that time, he was the world’s top sharpshooter, but the path of promotion in the Navy was still repeatedly obstructed due to vision problems. In the 1920s, Lee served on multiple destroyers and gradually grew into an excellent commander. His leadership style was highly praised, patiently teaching subordinates to master skills.

And once they learned, letting them display their talents while he sneaked away to the shooting range to practice or studied new mouse traps. This was his new hobby. The mouse traps on the destroyers were all ingenious. There were trigger traps modified from air guns and miniature guillotines connected to buttons which became entertainment projects for the crew.

In his spare time, he would shoot at glass balls on abandoned fishing nets on the sea surface from the deck and invite Marines to practice together, personally teaching shooting skills and was deeply loved by everyone. In 1930, Lee was finally transferred back to the battleship and heavy cruiser forces and from then on developed an extreme obsession with large caliber artillery.

He resolved to turn the battleship’s artillery into a precise giant sniper rifle. For this he studied with great concentration and even published papers proposing that battleship shooting must consider the curvature of the earth and formulated a set of brand new shooting calculation formulas. This method was extremely practical.

After another battleship captain adopted it, the warship under his command became the most accurate shooting ship in the US Navy within 3 years. And all this was attributed to Lee’s research. By the late 1930s, the clouds of war gradually shrouded the world. Lee was sent to Washington, DC, responsible for clearing obstacles for the Navy’s war preparations.

His main opponent was the Bureau of Ordinance, which suffered from serious bureaucracy. This agency repeatedly dragged its feet, hindering the upgrade and innovation of naval equipment. For example, the MK-14 torpedo had serious defects and often did not explode after hitting, but the Bureau of Ordinance refused to admit it. New equipment was clearly mature, but was shelved due to cumbersome testing.

Lee’s arrival was to break this rigidity. At that time, Lee was no longer the mischievous ghost of the past, but still retained a vigorous and resolute character. He saw the potential of radar at a glance, knowing that in future naval battles, radar could allow warships to lock onto targets without seeing the enemy.

However, the Bureau of Ordinance refused large-scale equipment on the grounds of wasting funds. Lee immediately stated, “If the United States doesn’t have it, buy it from Britain.” Forcing the Bureau of Ordinance to produce enough radar, clearing the obstacles for fully equipping naval warships with radar. Facing the difficult problem of submarine freshwater purification, an evaporative seawater desalination system had long been developed but could not be put into use due to bureaucratic delays.

Lee directly ordered immediate installation and said, “If you have an opinion, come to me directly, forcefully pushing the system to land, solving the freshwater supply problem for submarine crews.” In order to speed up the approval of documents, he was dissatisfied with the three-levellabeling of routine, priority, urgent, and specially customized an emergency of emergencies stamp.

After all documents were stamped with this red seal, no one dared to delay anymore, and various war preparation works were advanced rapidly. Lee’s foresight was not limited to radar and freshwater systems. He advocated establishing an aerial reconnaissance photo interpretation school within the US Navy, believing this was the key to obtaining intelligence in future naval battles.

Even though the Naval Research Laboratory refused to learn from Britain on the grounds that the US Navy is stronger than Britain, he still secretly sent people to visit Britain, extending their business trip to allow them to fully learn advanced technologies and finally successfully established the school, cultivating a large number of intelligence interpretation talents for the Navy.

In World War II, the MK53 proximity fuse was hailed as an important invention that changed the situation of the war. It had a built-in miniature Doppler radar that could automatically identify targets and detonate at the best distance, completely changing the predicament of air defense, relying entirely on betting on luck.

In the past, however, the Bureau of Ordinance obstructed its use on the grounds that it needed to achieve 100% reliability. There is no absolutely reliable equipment in the world. Lee argued strongly, broke bureaucratic barriers, promoted the equipping of proximity fuses in the Navy, and significantly improved the US military’s air defense capabilities.

Even more far-sighted was that Lee had predicted as early as 1939 that aircraft carriers would dominate future naval battles. At that time, the US Navy planned to build multiple Alaska class large cruisers. Lee resolutely opposed it and advocated investing resources in the construction of aircraft carriers.

This suggestion was finally adopted and the US Navy vigorously developed aircraft carriers, laying the foundation for victory in the Pacific theater of World War II. At the same time, he also proposed dismantling the flashy observation decks on warships and fully installing 40 MMOR’s anti-aircraft guns and 20 M or anti-aircraft guns, turning every warship into a porcupine bristling with thorns to improve air defense capabilities.

In order to implement the artillery installation plan, Lee formulated a detailed procurement list. The Bureau of Ordinance refused installation on the grounds of no necessity. So he maneuvered cleverly, first issuing the order with procurement authority and after the list was approved, erasing the period after ordering artillery and adding and install on every US Navy warship, forcibly promoting the air defense upgrade of the entire Navy.

Whenever a warship returned to port, soldiers would immediately board the ship to add anti-aircraft guns. These artillery pieces later played a key role in resisting the Japanese kamicazi special attack units. On December 7th, 1941, the Pearl Harbor incident broke out and the United States was officially fully involved in World War II.

Admiral Ernest King knew Lee’s ability well and promoted him to commander of battleship readiness, responsible for ensuring that the entire US Navy was ready for war. At that time, naval security was lax and strangers could enter and exit highsecurity institutions at will. Lee once again brought out his prank skills, making fake officer IDs printed with photos of Hitler and actress May West, successfully mixing into major institutions, sounding the alarm with practical actions, and promoting a comprehensive upgrade of security measures. He also imitated the plot of

Oceans 11, letting subordinates dress up as butlers to sneak into hotels, steal top secret documents of high-ranking officials, test security loopholes, and thoroughly rectify the Navy’s security problems. By virtue of his outstanding performance, Lee was appointed commander of all US fast battleships and finally returned to the battlefield.

commanding the battleship Washington. He knew the advantages of the Japanese Army in night combat. So he concentrated on studying radar technology and became the person who understood radar best in the US Navy besides the designer. In training, he did not manage the nine main guns of the battleship as a whole, but regarded them as nine independent sniper rifles, optimizing their performance one by one.

He also discovered serious errors in the firing data tables and aiming charts provided by the shipyard. Facing the Bureau of Ordinances defense that the charts are correct, Lee went into battle personally, spending months redrawing all the charts, allowing the Washington’s artillery accuracy to reach an astonishing level.

He once had an escort-like cruiser sail to 10 mi away, and the Washington’s shells landed precisely on the cruiser’s wake, almost grazing the ship, comparable to shooting an apple off the top of a head with a bow and arrow. And the real warconcerning him, had just begun. On the night of November 13th, 1942, two fleets, US and Japanese, sailed towards each other on the sea around Guadal Canal.

From north to south was the Japanese fleet led by Noutake Condo. Their goal was to shell Henderson Field at the northern end of Guadal Canal. From south to north was the US fleet led by Lee, tasked with stopping the Japanese reinforcement action. The two fleets sailed towards Iron Bottom Sound like fate, and a night’s duel of battleships was about to be staged.

The phenomenon of seniority was serious in the Japanese Navy and 56-year-old Nobotak Condo was already among the top small group. A senior figure second only to Isuroku Yamamoto. The fleet executing the bombing mission this time could be called luxurious. Battleship Kirishima, heavy cruiser Atago, heavy cruiser Takao, light cruiser Nagara, light cruiser Sendai, and four destroyers.

Among them, the battleship Karishima was even more majestic. installed with eight 356 mm main guns and 1452 MM secondary guns. Such a lineup was not inferior for fighting a tough battle at sea. Relatively speaking, the lineup of the US fleet appeared slightly shabby. Lee’s Task Force 64 had two battleships, the Washington and the South Dakota, but not a single cruiser.

The rest were destroyers. It could be said that the Washington and the South Dakota were his last trump cards. However, looking at the triplemounted 406 mm heavy artillery on the ship, Lee still drumed up enough energy. Wait until the next morning, which was 7:40 a.m. on November 14th. The US submarine Salmon was the first to discover the Condo fleet.

But due to the distance being too far and course problems, the submarine commander Ramsay did not launch an attack. And in order to launch a surprise attack in stealth, he didn’t even report this news. It could be said that this made the US military miss the best opportunity for a surprise attack. Missing opportunities on the battlefield is punishable.

Sure enough, at 2:55 p.m., a Japanese sea plane searched for Lee’s fleet for the first time. Soon this news was sent to the Condo fleet. But also due to the problem of not seeing the sea surface clearly from high altitude, the Japanese army inherited the consistent tradition of exaggerated reporting.

Stubbornly reporting two battleships as destroyers. 5 minutes later, the submarine Salmon groped to the sea area east of Santa Isabel Island. Not much different from Ramsay’s estimate. The Condo fleet was right here. The Salmon occupied an ideal attack position. What was even funnier was that the Japanese army was completely unaware at this time.

At 3:18 p.m., the Salmon launched a surprise attack, firing five torpedoes from the head of the submarine. Their target was the Kirishima. Unfortunately, this round of attacks did not hit, but something outrageous happened. The torpedoes had already missed the Condo fleet, yet they still didn’t know of the salmon’s existence.

One can only say that fools have foolish luck. The US submarine, having lost the initiative, chose to retreat. It wasn’t until the evening of this day that Ramsay reported his discovery to Lee. A Japanese fleet was sailing south 240 km north of Guadal Canal. Lee, realizing it later, did not hesitate. He had to intercept this fleet.

After 9:00 at night, Lee’s fleet bypassed the northern end of Tsavo Island and came to the classic battlefield, Iron Bottom Sound. But it seemed he had come too fast. The Condo fleet had not yet appeared. Lee arranged for the fleet to be patient. They made an arshaped cutin with a clockwise course. An hour and a half later, they were preparing at a place about 30 km from the northern end of Tsavo Island.

At this time, their opponent, the Condo Fleet, was dividing into three formations and sailing south from the sea area north of Tsavo Island. 2 hours later, the Washington’s radar discovered the Japanese army, finding the Japanese fleet direction was northnorthwest, speed 21 knots, distance 16 km.

After receiving the report, Lee immediately issued the order. Gunners, prepare for battle. Lee’s fleet turned smoothly. The Washington’s turrets had all turned to the starboard side, pointing at the rushing Japanese ship formation. The great battle was triggered at any moment. At 11:13 p.m., the Washington’s main guns reported that the fire control radar had completed the target distance calculation.

3 minutes later, the Condo fleet entered visual range. Lee issued the order to open fire. The Washington’s nine main guns opened fire on the Sendai. One round of salvo shells passed over the target. Over. Immediately following the second salvo, everyone stared at the radar, believing that this time it would definitely hit the target directly.

Following the main guns, the 127mm secondary guns also joined the shelling. The strike target pointing to the Shikami behind the Sendai. At the same time, the South Dakota followed the Washington to shoot at the Sendai, butthe main guns were constantly plagued by malfunctions. This ominous atmosphere seemed to infect the Americans.

Dozens of shells from the two battleships all missed. The Japanese fleet dodged two rounds of salvos with fright, but no danger, but they were already scared out of their wits. The leading Sendai turned sharply and retreated north, and other fleets also only cared about running away. simply unable to attend to the situation of friendly forces.

The most miserable was the Ionami. After suffering a siege by several US destroyers, it panicked and lost its way, making the US military think this ship came to catch shells. Less than half an hour after the start of the war, this destroyer sank into Ironbottom Sound with regret. Of course, there were also brave ones in the Condo fleet.

The destroyer Nagara clashed with the Preston. While the comrades were in disarray, the gunners on the ship found the right opportunity to attack the Preston. Soon, the Preston’s power room suffered heavy damage. The explosion destroyed two boilers, and the US military also began to suffer casualties. The Nagara seemed encouraged and opened fire on the US military one after another.

The Preston’s rear turret also suffered shelling. A fierce explosion came from the fire, turning the entire destroyer into a floating large torch. Captain Storms ordered to abandon ship. It was not only this US naval vessel that suffered. The walk suffered a torpedo attack from a Japanese ship. The middle of the vessel became the victim.

The explosion tore the vessel in two. Almost at the same time, the Preston and the Walk both sank to the bottom of Iron Bottom Sound. The Benham and Gwyn destroyers at the rear of the queue also suffered heavy damage. The two ships had to cross Cape Espiron to the west together and flee in panic. While several destroyers were being attacked, the two US battleships further back were accelerating towards the war zone.

The South Dakota, which was relatively forward, tried to lend a hand, but just as they approached, the battleship circuit suddenly shortcircuited. All instrument panels and fire control radars failed and the giant ship became a blind man floating on the sea. In the first 30 minutes of this exchange of fire, the US military, which struck first, suffered a loss instead.

Two destroyers sank, two destroyers fled. The Condo fleet had only one destroyer sunk and one destroyer injured. At this moment, the scales of victory seemed to have tilted towards Japan. It wasn’t until the South Dakota started up again that the US military situation improved somewhat.

In order to avoid colliding with the wreckage of the destroyers and also to seize a favorable position, Lee ordered life rafts to be thrown to those who fell into the water. At the same time, the Washington bypassed the ruined ships to the left, passing through the waters full of floating objects and people who fell into the water, preparing to avenge the friendly forces.

Meanwhile, after restoring part of its power, the South Dakota also began to approach the target to the right. To avoid the Washington, it chose to bypass to the right. But this made it fall into a very unfavorable situation again. The burning Walke and Preston were like a bright lamp in the night, completely silhouetting the side profile of the South Dakota.

Now the Japanese could not turn a blind eye. The lookout on the Itago saw this exposed South Dakota clearly. Soon Condo issued an attack order to the fleet. Battleship in sight. Attack. At 2350, the exposed South Dakota fought one against three, unfolding a night-like duel with the Japanese ship Kishima and the heavy cruisers Atago and Takao.

This was a duel between true capital ships. All personnel on the Kirishima operated at full speed. Search lights shown directly and hoists transported shells into the main turrets. Only 3 minutes later, the Japanese ship roared and launched the first round of attacks. 17mm, 203 mm shells, and six27mm shells hit the South Dakota.

Among them, a 360mm shell smashed into the South Dakota’s rear turret. This US battleship lost power again and fell into darkness. The main guns could not operate and could only return fire with secondary guns. Although it was hit by 27 shells of different calibers, the South Dakota still lived firmly. However, the Hull caught fire in many places, which made Condo make a wrong judgment.

It is impossible for a ship to return to port in this situation. All Japanese troops stared closely at this behemoth, waiting for its silence, waiting for the arrival of victory. But they didn’t know that there was another US battleship watching all this in the dark until the Washington sailed into the opponent’s field of view. All the magic on the battlefield attached itself to this battleship.

The last 10 minutes of November 14th were very bad for Lee. The destroyers almost collapsed and even the South Dakota played missing. The Washington’s radar wasempty. He called out to friendly forces one after another, but all messages were like stones sinking into the sea. Here, the South Dakota seemed to disappear out of thin air.

And this sea area seemed to instantly become a vacuum until the Kirishima fiercely attacked the South Dakota. The muzzle flashes and the fully open search lights illuminated the target and also set off the Kiroshima as an ideal target. Lee finally found the South Dakota and also found the target of attack. The Washington was like a beast in ambush, just waiting for the final order to arrive.

The second hand on the Washington slowly slid from 58 to 59. Lee issued the attack order in anger. The second hand coincided with the Minute hand and our hand pointing to 12:00. A new day, November 15th, arrived. The Washington’s three triple-mounted main guns let out a roar, instantly piercing the gloom of defeat.

Almost at the same time, the lookout on the Itago also discovered the Washington and immediately reported a warning. There is a battleship ahead. Just a few seconds after this alarm, the Kishima was shrouded in the flames of exploding shells. The Washington’s gunners were calm and composed. After the first round of salvo, they thought the Japanese ship must have been damaged, but the first round of attack did not hit.

What really damaged the Kirishima was their second round of salvo. Suffering a beating from 406 mm shells at a distance of less than 8 km, the Kirishima’s protective layer played no role. One shell hit the formast base position and explosion fragments affected the two front main turrets. To prevent the front magazine from detonating, Captain Iwabuchi ordered emergency flooding of the front magazine, temporarily eliminating the crisis, but also causing the hole to start tilting slightly to starboard.

The second shell hit the steering gear room, causing seawater to pour in backwards, jamming the rudder. The Kirishima began to slow down and slowly spun in circles. While rescuing, the Kirishima returned fire. Because the two main turrets at the rear did not rotate smoothly, they could only fire with the front two main turrets.

The gunners fired several rounds of shells. Captain Iwabuchi judged that one hit the bridge and also judged that there were more than 10 hits. But in fact, none of the 360 mm armor-piercing shells fired by the Kiroshima hit. They were all just a little bit off. These shells whistled past the superructure of the Washington as if a god quietly lifted them a millimeter when the shells were about to fall, leaving the Washington intact.

Immediately after, the Americans continued to fire, and multiple shells hit again. The Kirishima’s formast and superructure fell into a sea of fire. And this was only the first two minutes of the 15th. Lee knew very well that all their advantages lay in the advanced nature of the fire control radar. At 02 on the 15th, the Washington’s main guns stopped firing and the lookout reported that the target had begun to sink.

The equally stunned Japanese heavy cruisers, Atago and Takao, also came back to their senses at this moment and began to fire continuously in the approximate direction of the Washington. But this was useless. None of the shells fired in panic hit the target. If destroyers had fired torpedoes at the Washington at this time, they might have picked up a big prize.

But the Japanese destroyer main forces, the Kamura team and the Hashimoto team were simply unable to aid Condo at the critical moment. A few minutes later, the Washington’s Captain Davis ordered after the key target did not sink. No matter what you see, just shoot. But Lee believed they should crush the Japanese landing fleet so as to both avoid torpedoes and truly complete the mission.

The Washington left the engagement area and sailed towards the northwest. Around 020, the Itago discovered the Washington again. This time they chose to launch torpedoes immediately. The Washington, as if with divine help, easily dodged the attack and sailed away. At this time, Condo misjudged again. He thought the US military had already been routed.

The landing fleet needed no escort and also declared victory and left the combat zone. The South Dakota also took this opportunity to leave the battlefield. This was 2 hours later. The Kirishima couldn’t hold on. The captain issued the order to abandon ship and at 3:25 the Kirishima capsized and sank. If the battle had ended here, then Condo’s judgment would have really been correct.

The Washington returned to port unscathed and did not attack the Japanese landing fleet. It’s just that he ignored the US Air Forces. At 4:00 in the morning on the 15th, the Japanese landing fleet arrived at Guadal Canal. 2 hours later, warplanes taking off from Henderson Field swarmed in. The Japanese army’s food and ammunition were all destroyed, leaving only 2,000 to 3,000 troops to add some effort to the journey of Starvation Island.

At this point, Condo’s mission failed and the USmilitary completed the interception. Lee’s heroic performance won the praise of Admiral Hally and was awarded the Navy Cross. Facing the crew’s request for a speech, he simply said one sentence. You want this medal, I’ll wear it. The short words were full of the doineering and calmness of a soldier.

In the late stage of World War II, the Washington mainly participated in small-scale shelling missions, providing air defense cover for aircraft carriers. Just as Lee predicted, aircraft carriers had become the core of naval warfare. In 1945, the Japanese battleships were basically all destroyed, and the kamicazi special attack units became the biggest threat to the US Navy.

The Navy planned to let Lee focus on studying air defense measures to resist kamicazi attacks, but Heaven was jealous of heroic talents. On August 25th, 1945, Lee suffered a sudden myioardial infarction on his way back to the United States and passed away a few minutes later, unable to complete this new mission. Lee’s life began with the rebellion of a mischievous child and ended in the legend of artillery fire.

He wore thick glasses and had defective vision. Yet he conquered pistols, rifles, and even the giant cannons of battleships with precision. He did not follow conventions, acted vigorously and resolutely, broke bureaucratic rigidity, and promoted the innovation of naval equipment. He had foresight, predicted the aircraft carrier era, and rewrote the trend of naval warfare in World War II.

He was the greatest sharpshooter in history. Not only because he could hit targets accurately, but also because he could lock onto the direction of justice and victory in troubled times. This hero ignored by history interpreted with his life. Precision is the confidence to cross the smoke of gunpowder. And even more, a legend that never fades.

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