RE: Accuracy all devices.
Posted: Sat Nov 22, 2014 9:13 pm
Well, that's the first time I ever heard the Norden bombsight described as "operationally, virtually worthless".
I have first read about their deficiencies in some Polish newspaper about ten years ago. Kurt Vonnegut reminisced about his WWII experiences.
http://lib.znate.ru/docs/index-289202.html?page=21
"They said we had these magnificent bombsights which would allow us to drop a bomb down a smoke stack, and that there was all this microsurgery going on on the ground. Then we saw what it really was. They would send a cloud of airplanes over and bomb the shit out of everything. There was no use of bombsights whatsoever, there was simply carpet bombing. And that was kept secret from the American people: the nature of the air raids and random bombings, the shooting and the blowing up of anything that moved".