Naval History and Heritage Command
Two Naval Officers Shooting the Sun
The junior officer on the right is using a sextant to take a navigational reading, a task referred to aboard ship as "shooting the sun." Before the days of global positioning, sailors used a sextant to measure the angle between the horizon and the noontime sun and thereby help determine latitude.
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- World War II 1939-1945
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