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...training ("Our planes were in the air at 7 a.m. each morning and sometimes we'd still be at it at 10 p.m.") did not bother him. He thought the B-25 (North America's medium-range Mitchell bomber, stripped of its radio, bottom gun-turret and Norden bombsight) was a lively ship...
Bombardier (RKO-Radio) is a Hollywood salute to the Norden bomb sight, which is at one point tenderly compared with the goose that laid the golden egg. Before Pearl Harbor, Major Davis (Pat O'Brien) believes in the bomb sight. His friend Captain Oliver (Randolph Scott) scorns it. At their New Mexican training field, Davis' pretty secretary (Anne Shirley) romantically if irrelevantly pads out the footage. The bomb sight argument is finally settled in a night raid on Tokyo, when Captain Oliver compensates for his former skepticism by making a Japanese aircraft factory (and himself) a fiery...
...called for readiness. Suddenly a burst of flak punched the plane on the nose. Jack Mathis was hit in the chest, side and back. The plane shuddered, went right on into the groove. Jack picked himself up, crawled in a widening path of his own blood back to the Norden bombsight, made his final adjustments with his left hand (his right was limp). At the proper moment...
...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...
...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...