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Biggest single military aviation secret of the U.S. is its famed superaccurate Norden bombsight. Pictures and descriptions of it have been rigorously withheld from press and public. It has been the prime example, the clear-cut case of the kind of thing that patriots would hardly mention for fear of damaging the country. Last week the U.S. was given another lesson on the subject of what is a military secret...
...States At torney Harold M. Kennedy solemnly told the jury he would show7 that the Nazis had. got the secret from one of the defendants: German-born Herman Lang. Defendant Lang was in a position to get it: he was final inspector of the sights in the Carl L. Norden Inc. plant in Manhattan. Furthermore, Prosecutor Kennedy charged it had been turned over to Germany in 1938. Apparently the Nazis have had it for three years during which it has remained a secret of secrets...
...Hoover's spectacular weekend pounce, 32 men & women were in jail. Among the captives, who looked like characters out of a Hitchcock thriller, were: a draftsman who had for several years inspected the Army's secret Norden bombsight; an engineer for the Sperry Gyroscope Co., which makes the bombsight and other vital instruments of war; a steward on a Pan American Clipper; a woman sculptress and playwright; a tool and die maker; Axel, the brother of Bund-ster James Wheeler-Hill; 63-year-old Frederick Joubert Duquesne, writer, lecturer and shadowy figure of World War I, said...
...Give Britain the secret Norden bombsight...
...heavy bombers), 20 four-engined B-17Cs (Boeing Flying Fortresses). All are to be equipped with Sperry bomb sights, the U. S. military secret, supposedly able to land a bomb in a flowerpot from 30,000 feet. Retained, noted both General Marshall and the President, was the Norden bomb sight, which has made the Sperry obsolete...