The many plots to assassinate the madman responsible for the death of millions. War planners were already settling on the idea of precision strategic bombing as a way to capitalize on the potential of airpower and avoid the horror of trench warfare, which had been the hallmark of World War I on the Western Front. The Norden Bombsight: Accurate Beyond Belief?Īrmy Air Corps General Billy Mitchell’s airmen sank the former German battleship Ostfriesland. Although it took 65 bombs aimed at the huge, motionless ship to accomplish the task, the test challenged the primacy of battleships as an offensive weapon.
The Norden bombsight was advanced but may not have lived up to its designers’ expectations. Strategic Bombing in World War Two is both a guide to understanding the data of. The Norden Bombsight was a complex, 2000-piece mechanical computer. Out instructions over the intercom to the. Weapon Bombardiers took an oath to guard the Norden bombsight with their lives to. By Roaul Drapeau In a 1921 bombing test, U.S.
