Word: bombsights
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Until war hits him, Joe is just another untested American. Selected by his employers to install the new Army bombsight in their aircraft, he is snatched by enemy agents who want a blueprint of the sight. He is tortured, escapes, and his abductors are finally captured...
...many an American citizen awaited the day when wood-and-paper Tokyo should lie beneath the crisscross hairs of a U.S. bombsight...
...plane goes into a steep dive and Mac, his eye to the bombsight, takes command: "Right a bit. Left a bit. Steady at that!" Four bombs are short, but the fifth, a 1,000-pounder, whangs the target with an explosion that drowns the plane in white light. Twisting and turning to get out of the searchlights, F for Freddie heads for the Channel and home...
...meet Inspector Herman Lang, employed by the makers of the famed U.S. secret Norden bombsight. He was to set up a radio transmitter and operate it. So, weighted down with instructions, fake names, five messages in microfilm hidden in his watch, and $1,000 for a starter, William Sebold returned to Manhattan...
Last June the FBI swooped suddenly, arrested 33 (16 pleaded guilty). Last week in a Brooklyn courtroom a subdued William Sebold told his story, and narrative-wise U.S. Attorney Harold Kennedy filled in the gaps. On trial were Herman Lang, accused of selling details of the design of the bombsight, shadowy Frederick Joubert Duquesne, blond Axel Wheeler-Hill, brother of Bundster James Wheeler-Hill, as well as a baker, a shipping clerk, a book salesman, a photographer, a musician, a seaman, a machinist...