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Biggest single military aviation secret of the U.S. is its famed superaccurate Norden bombsight. Pictures and descriptions of it have been rigorously withheld from press and public. It has been the prime example, the clear-cut case of the kind of thing that patriots would hardly mention for fear of damaging the country. Last week the U.S. was given another lesson on the subject of what is a military secret...
...Hoover's spectacular weekend pounce, 32 men & women were in jail. Among the captives, who looked like characters out of a Hitchcock thriller, were: a draftsman who had for several years inspected the Army's secret Norden bombsight; an engineer for the Sperry Gyroscope Co., which makes the bombsight and other vital instruments of war; a steward on a Pan American Clipper; a woman sculptress and playwright; a tool and die maker; Axel, the brother of Bund-ster James Wheeler-Hill; 63-year-old Frederick Joubert Duquesne, writer, lecturer and shadowy figure of World War I, said...
...Give Britain the secret Norden bombsight...
...spur the U. S. air corps' recruiting drive Charlie McCarthy turned up with Edgar Bergen at March Field, Calif., offered a combination peashooter-bombsight "guaranteed to hit a cuspidor at 30 feet," was sworn in as honorary master sergeant by Colonel Benjamin G. Weir, base commander. Viewing 21 flying fortresses lined up in his honor, Charlie suggested: "Try putting a hostess in each...
Approaching the target, the bombardier leaves his seat, crouches or lies down flat over the bombsight just below his machine gun. Quickly he checks the spirit levels to be sure that the ship is parallel to the ground, other settings that correct for the speed of the plane and the wind drift (which slows a bomb, speeds or deflects it). Then he puts his eye to the eyepiece and takes his sight on his target. From that point until the bombs are dropped the bombardier is in charge of the ship. Training his sight on the target he may well...