Nick,
I too was building a destroyer and has the same question. Heres what I
found, the fighting lights were used to identify
friendly vessels during a night fight so as not to blast your own ****ps
out of the water. I finally found a site where they
mentioned the use of them during a battle
http://www.geocities.com/pentagon/base/1250/duncancape.html
and below is
a quote of the paragraph. Apparently while they state "green over green
over white, this could be any combination of the three
obviously by pre-arrangement.
Here's the quote from the above site do***ent where they actually used
them to identify friendly's (now we use electronic
recognition to suppress fire at friendly aircraft ****ps etc).
Hope this helps your dad complete his apparently extremely accurate
model.
"
his ****ps up ahead on the starboard side. Scott, still not satisfied,
wanted to know if his crusiers had been shooting at Tobin's destroyers.
The squadron commander replied, "I don't know who you were firing at."
Still uncertain, Scott ordered Tobin's three ****ps to flash their battle
recognition lights. Lights green over green over white in a vertical
position flickered momentarily to starboard. Satisfied at last -- and
four minutes had elapsed -- Scott at 2351 ordered Resume Firing! "
Regards,
Bill
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