Mary Babnik Brown Bombed the Reich...

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Mary Babnik Brown Bombed the Reich...

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Iam the Allies now so I was reading about the day/night bombing and I came across this info.

The cross hairs for the Norden Bomb sight were made from the hair of Mary Babnik Brown who was a blonde.
They had tried the web of Black Widow spiders but the temp changes were too much for it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Babnik_Brown
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Very interesting [:'(]
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Indeed, thanks for posting
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Whats the truth?

States she donated ger hair in 1942 based on a newspaper article in 1943 and was used in bombsights in 1944???
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Who would have thought it. A Wikipedia article that has inaccuracies. I'm shocked. Shocked I say. [>:]
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The Black widow webs Ive seen do very well with the humidity, but winter weather leaves them thin or none at all.
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I would venture to say that the biggest inaccuracy may be that she was asked for hair from only her head.
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