Word: bombsight
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Quick was Harold McEnness to surmise that the Germans either had learned the secret of the closely guarded U. S. bombsight, or had developed one of their own. Quick were Army Air Corps officers to say that the U. S. sight was still a U. S. secret. But none doubted that German ingenuity had developed a bombing sight for World War II that was modern, scientific, accurate. Typical level-flight bomber in the medium range (24,900 Ib. fully loaded) is the sleek, two-engined Heinkel He. in K which carries a crew of four, makes bombing a highly coordinated...
...advantage of level-flight bombing from high altitude is that it keeps bombers out of effective range of anti-aircraft batteries, forces defending pursuit to climb higher and farther to give battle. Its only limitation in good weather is the accuracy of the bombsight...
...months these war-hating warriors had waited for their marching papers. For nine long months since the invasion of Poland they had, without realizing it, actually been fighting.' Without pulling a trigger, without manning a single pompom or lining up a single bombsight, they had silently engaged between ten and 30 divisions of French troops across the border. Silently, their Navy had engaged the Mediterranean Fleets of France and Great Britain...
Pride of the U. S. Army Air Corps is its secret bombsight, which is accurate for level-flight bombing at altitudes as high as 18,000 feet. Pride of the German Luftwaffe, apparently lacking an instrument of such uncanny accuracy, is a more primitive but certainly effective means of putting air projectiles down on the bull's-eye: dive bombing. Last week, from the Marne to the Scheldt, Nazi airmen in ungainly, single-motored Junkers Ju.87s were on the go from dawn to dusk, dropping out of the dazzling sun in near-vertical dives on docks, factories, ammunition dumps...
Perhaps because they have no precision bombsight to compare with the new U. S. sight, which makes U. S. aviators boast they can drop a bomb in a barrel from 18,000 feet, Germans have emphasized dive bombing which is accurate, but vulnerable to anti-aircraft machine gunning...