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...needs. Outlined were five long, hard "official pre-induction" courses in electricity, radio, shop work, machines and automotive mechanics for high-school boys and older night students. The 90-hour course in electricity, for example, would prepare students for 151 specialized Army jobs such as telegrapher, field lineman, bombsight mechanic, searchlight operator...
...Haupt was instructed by his superiors in Germany: ". . . to get employment in an optical concern ... to get inside information about optical companies." (A Chicago optical company for which Haupt worked prior to his flight to Germany did subcontracting work on the secret Norden bombsight.) Haupt also was instructed "to register for the draft as soon as possible ... he was to explain his absence from America by saying he was in Mexico...
...waters. The Yangtze is in flood and we are drawing near our target, I thought. I crawled through the tunnel under the pilot's seat and came out in the glassed bombardier's compartment. Butch Morgan sat in the very nose of the ship, peering down his bombsight. I sat in the seat directly behind him with my knees in his back, peering down below and watching the yellow snake of the Yangtze drawing closer. Over to the right high up on a mountain, appeared the black spot of Kuling, formerly a summer resort of foreigners. Here...
Morgan pulled at the switch. On the bomb board lights flashed off and on. Our plane swerved and dipped sharply down to the left. Morgan craned his neck far out over the bombsight, pressed his nose against the glass of the compartment and looked down. I peered out of the side. Below was the green, mucky lake and black smoke was rising from it. "That's damn poor bombing," said Morgan. But as the plane swerved further we saw flowers of smoke issuing from the heart of the railway station...
...Over 100 jewels are used in the instrument panel of a big U.S. bomber. Others are in its bombsight...