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...Charles Ross Greening* had been diverted from his major study (art) at Washington State College to one of his minors (military science). He flew on the Tokyo raid with Doolittle, and was the man who invented the expendable 20? bombsight which Doolittle used instead of the secret (and invaluable) Norden. Afterwards, Greening flew 27 missions over Africa and Italy. After the 27th, in July 1943, he was shot down. He just missed parachuting into the crater of Vesuvius...
When war came, Burroughs got the job of making Navy Norden bombsights and handed it to John Coleman. He worked out a system of mass production (previously believed impossible because of the half-millionth-of-an-inch tolerances). Said Coleman of the famed secret sight: "Its only secret . . . was extreme accuracy in manufacture...
...indictments, based mainly on Truman Committee findings, charged that the Norden company, ordered by the Navy Department to turn over bombsight plans to Remington Rand Inc., which was to build 8,500 "football units" (the main computing part), had blocked Remington Rand production by 1) withholding engineering advice; 2) furnishing incomplete and inaccurate specifications; 3) rejecting Remington Rand units in New York...
...July 1943, C.I.O.'s United Electrical Workers complained to the Navy of a production slowdown at Norden's New York plant. Corrigan, Naval production-management boss for both plants, investigated and exonerated Norden. Then, the indictment charged, Corrigan persuaded Norden officials to hire his firm, with which he had supposedly severed all ties when he was commissioned. The fee: $104,000. As a result of Corrigan's recommendations, the Navy took over the Remington plant and turned it over to Norden...
...this the Norden company snapped: "Fantastic . . . untrue. Carl L. Norden Inc. . . . has exceeded every production schedule." Corrigan, on inactive duty, said: "I would like to get my hands on that $109,000 they're talking about...