Boston born 15 years after WW2 you'd have thought the war was still on, in my family as a toddler all I heard was jap this and kraut that, patriotism was palpable, my first day of school we'd pledge allegiance to the United States of America, staring at the big classroom flag, hand over heart, then drill for incoming Russian nukes, they told us that since we we're east Coast city we'd be nuked first. Have a nice day kids. American pride was drilled into me. God bless the United States of America. 🇺🇸
Your time , mine starting in 1960 ; ARMY AIR CORPS Father , we were in Seattle, our neighbors dug Nuclear Shelters, FBI Agent the father of my older sister's best friend across street in Maple Leave neighborhood in N.E. Seattle. We were also patriotic family , my Dad's emergency kit , ( over the ocean in KOREA War ) from the B-29's , his action badges , the uniforms , always greatly respected. I keep my Father's WW2 " cut " wool AIR CORPS uniforms , carefully Dad and Mom long gone. Yes : Being a Patriot , loving God , and Country .... a better time , we were a better people too. God Bless the United States of America. 🇺🇸 🙏🏻
Great story, thanks for the research. Apparently the Norden bombsight's effectivess was hampered by chronic cloud cover over German targets. Also, it wasn't exactly a secret. Herman Lang, a German-born engineer who worked for the company manufacturing the bombsight, passed critical information about the device to Nazi Germany. In the late 1930s, Lang, working as a spy for the Abwehr (German military intelligence), was able to provide drawings and details to the Nazis, even before the U.S. entered the war. Although Lang’s stolen plans helped Germany understand the device, they were incomplete and didn't provide the full technical know-how needed for precise replication. As a result, while the Nazis were aware of the bombsight's basic operation, they could not fully duplicate its functionality. However, they helped make sense of material retrieved by the Nazis from downed US bombers.
Your video's and Chanel are incredible. it's a great contribution to ensure that these men's legacy and sacrifices are remembered forever! Thanks for the content.
Excellent video. It would be difficult these days to find 2 brothers to fight as hard as they did. Let alone from the same family. Thank you, gentlemen!
The military spent millions on this piece of equipment but this bombsight was way oversold and had very little effect on the bomb runs at such a high altitude...
I wonder how much of the fanfare behind this thing was just cover for the real prize which was the proximity fuse. Keep the nazi's looking for the bomb sight when it's junk. They did the same thing by spreading the lie that carrots made you see better at night. That's how they were spotting planes. No no. Ignore the radar behind me.
@@ronniewestherly3435 either he learned from it or just happened to be a one-time case. I guess we'll learn with the next video. I understand that for many people it's not a big issue, but at some point it became really stupid and repetitive how the thumbnails had no correlation with the content.
And who are you the f****** thumbnail police would you stopped getting on this dude about his thumbnails. Because frankly it's getting a bit obsessive. At least this dude's thumbnails aren't over exaggerated. But you pointing out all the stupid s*** you point out. get a f****** new hobby dude. And your above smart ass attempt at an apology or whatever you want to call it doesn't help your case any. And man I feel sorry for your friends if this is kind of s*** you complain about
… due to unsuspected high altitude ‘jet streams’ over Japan… The Japanese were aware of them, & used them to launch balloon bomb attacks on the Pacific NW of the States & Canada… … hoping to ignite vast forest fires.
Dude do you go sleep at night after editing your vids? Your story telling is amazing mate… been following all your pages for years. Please keep up the content
I hate to correct you as you are normally very correct. The B-17 was not the best bomber in Europe for the US. That honor was actually for the B-24. The 24 had a larger bomb capacity than the 17 and was equal in firepower or greater depending on the model.
I agree on the first part - but the Lancaster could carry 22,000 lbs, had only 7 crew, and (even though it usually flew only at night) a lower loss rate.
@@0ldb1ll You still don't get it do you? Yes, other aircraft were more accurate. But the USAAC's saturation bombing had a much looser definition of "Pinpoint". Just because something else is more accurate, doesn't negate what USAAC classes as pinpoint. FFS. They could hit within 500 metres and could potentially be classes as pinpoint.
The bombsite originally was built for the USN. They decided they didn't want it (same with the RAF) but were reluctant to give them to the USAAF. The original Nordens were handmade precision instruments. During the war there was no way Norden could make the required amount in their upper story NYC loft. Manufacturing was farmed out to other companies - Singer Sewing Machine Company comes to mind. Quality control went out the window. A not terribly useful object became an almost totally useless object at that point. The Norden Company was sold to Westinghouse in Baltimore in the 90's. Norden would give bombsites to employees as gifts. After the sale Westinghouse employees found complete bombsites in the Norden dumpsters.
I’d imagine the sights made by Singer would’ve been top notch quality. My only reason for this, is the Singer built Colt 1911’s are highly sought after; on account of the tooling ability of the Singer factories/workers.
HI. EITHER I GOT A BAD SOUNDTRACK TRANSMITTED, OR YOU HAVE A COLD?? IF SO, HOPE YOU FEEL BETTER SOON!! AND "THE B-17 WAS THE 2ND MOST POWERFUL BOMBER TO THE B29" WHAT ABOUT THE B24??
Great video. It came to mind, when you described the duties of each member of the B29 crew, that today, a drone can do every task better. I guess from a risk/reward point of view,, that is good, but war in general, is not good.
Germany knew about this site before war began. They captured plenty of them from show down bombers,they compare it to own bomb sites,came to decision that it was no better thier own bomb site,they might change something s to thier own sites,but what I read online they didn't.
The Norden Bombsight was a SECOND-RATE bombsight - it wasn't as good as the sight used by the RAF or it's competitor, Sperry, or even it's German counterpart. The ONLY reason it was so "acclaimed" was the PUBLICITY STUNTS pulled by the manufacturer.
According to the book Combat Crew, written by someone who flew on the B17 over Europe, what happened was the lead bombardier in the lead bomber aimed at the target, the rest of the formation just pickled the bombs upon seeing the lead bombers bombs falling..
the sad truth that the Germans did get working copy of the Nordon bomb sight and said it was very accurate. we had a better bomb sight, but Nordon had better marketing. I wish i could remember the source it I read it a while ago.
Bombing accuracy with the Norden improved through the course of the war. In 1943, about 20% of the bombs dropped visually by the Eighth Air Force hit within 1,000 feet of the aiming point-by the end of the war, about 50% of the bombs dropped visually hit within 1,000 feet of the target.
b/s like the germans could not build a bomb sight ..they could build jet planes , big tanks , atom bombs , top machine guns , assault rifles , . subs, , flying bombs v-1 and v-2's could not build a sight
Ive actually heard from numerous reputable sources that the Norden Bomb Sight was actually Shit and didn't work worth a shit, But that that fact was what was really top secret, kept under wraps as to not let the enemy know how shit it was and hoping for a propaganda win of it causing dread & panic within the Axis forces .. BUT I can understand it's not easy to continually come up with content .
I love old war stories. Have you ever heard about old 666 the b17 bomber that was in the Pacific theater, the crew built and re-engineered it to be better. All out of salvaged parts.
Especially over Japan, THE JET STREAM so disrupted General Curtis LeMay's B-29 bombing of Japanese infrastructure, he resorted to low level incendiary bombing. The Norden Bombsite was over hyped, oversold & expensive for the results it produced. Was it worth it? Opinions are mixed.
No, the Norden was not crap or oversold, but it was hard to use. Put it in the hands of someone who didn’t know how to use it, of course it underperformed. It also depended on the bravery of the crew. A lot of crews were just plain scared and released their bombs before they reached the target.
9:51 Not sure why you are showing low altitude bombing runs conducted by the 5th Air Force in the Pacific in this video. The Norden bombsight would never have been used for that purpose in that theatre of the war.
The Brits used a similar clockwork analogue computer bombsite in The Vulcan to hit the runway at Port Stanley Only one direct hit... The Argentinians put mounds of soil on it to give the impression of more hits to the recon... That said Harrier ground attack made damn sure at very low level! Falklands War 1982!
In the 1960s I worked in the USAF on the AN/ASB-15 Bombing-Navigation system on B-52D aircraft. At tech school where we learned to maintain that system we learned that the Norden was really an inaccurate piece of crap.
Maybe by today's standards, but when the alernative was nothing maybe that piece of crap was better. I can think of a whole list of WWII era equipment that, by today's standards were a "piece of crap". For example, about 4 minutes in, the task of each crew member of the B29 was describeed. Today, a drone can do it better. I'm just saying.
We're actually expected to believe 1) that the Axis didn't get their hands on dozens of Norden bomb sights- since masses of bombers were being shot down daily? 2) that bomb site wasn't over hyped junk? 2) mass bombing missions relied on 1 single aircraft to guide them and no backup when that one got shot down? You make a lot of good videos but this one seems like a pile of nonsense.
I disagree. I may be wrong but I believe the B-24 Liberator, due to it's greater bombload and other attributes, was a more powerful bomber than the B-17. Imo that is.
@@utbdoug The Germans was just as good, they captured a number of them in down aircraft, assessed the Norden sight and found it was no better than theirs.
The thing is, they had the blueprints, and hardware, but it didn’t matter. Good or bad, it was used by the US, and there was nothing they could do about it.
True stories like this must be amplified in the American news story of freedom of our heroic history! I mean, just imagine if 2 American brothers from your town were tracked by aggressive Russian or Chinese hi-tech fighters! How aggressive would you want CNN or your local news station to truthfully cover this event? And to what extent to its conclusion?
Did you know Sears made a gun called The liberator. It was a single shot pistol. they were dropped from the sky in world war II. In hopes that they would be used to kill Nazis.
It's pretty well known the Norden bombsight was nothing more than overhyped marketing propaganda that fell way short of its promised effectiveness. Most bombardiers at the time actually thought it straight up sucked and some even said if you hit the intended target it was pure luck as the bombsight was irrelevant.
For obvious reasons this video is nothing more and nothing less than a propaganda film, but in the real world it is widely known that the Norden bomb sight was a pile of poo 💩, it was difficult to use and even more difficult to get bombs onto the target, dropping bombs into pickle barrels it was not capable of doing. Contrary to popular belief the United States actually offered the Norden to the RAF and were categorically told to, politely, go away, it wasn’t even the best bomb sight that the USAAF could have had, but the owner of Norden bribed officials to have his offering accepted. When the Nazis did get their hands on one they didn’t want it after their extensive examination and testing of it, sorry to say but not everything the USA came up with was/is the best.
If you’re going to make these videos and claim expertise get things right. There is no such thing as the “Congressional Medal of Honor “ It is the MEDAL OF HONOR.
The Norden bombsight was a very expensive bust. It was too complicated and it was ineffective unless visibilty was perfect. Read an excellent book THE BOMBER MAFIA for the best info on the entire bombing campaign.
I think the proximity fuse had a higher security rating, it was the game changer better then the atomic bomb!
only because the atomic bomb had limited use. imagine if we had the atomic bomb on d-day
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It would have been useless.
This brought tears to my 80 yr old eyes.
We can never repay the men for their sacrifice, there like will never be scene again, all we can do is live our lives well, for there sakes! USN, Vet!
Lest we forget, especially this November - remember these fine men and ask what they would think of the current state of our Union.
Especially those wanting to abandon allies to an authoritarian country making war against them.
Boston born 15 years after WW2 you'd have thought the war was still on, in my family as a toddler all I heard was jap this and kraut that, patriotism was palpable, my first day of school we'd pledge allegiance to the United States of America, staring at the big classroom flag, hand over heart, then drill for incoming Russian nukes, they told us that since we we're east Coast city we'd be nuked first. Have a nice day kids. American pride was drilled into me. God bless the United States of America. 🇺🇸
Your time , mine starting in 1960 ; ARMY AIR CORPS Father , we were in Seattle, our neighbors dug Nuclear Shelters, FBI Agent the father of my older sister's best friend across street in Maple Leave neighborhood in N.E. Seattle. We were also patriotic family , my Dad's emergency kit , ( over the ocean in KOREA War ) from the B-29's , his action badges , the uniforms , always greatly respected. I keep my Father's WW2 " cut " wool AIR CORPS uniforms , carefully Dad and Mom long gone.
Yes : Being a Patriot , loving God , and Country .... a better time , we were a better people too. God Bless the United States of America. 🇺🇸 🙏🏻
@@JohnShields-xx1yk me too!
Great story, thanks for the research.
Apparently the Norden bombsight's effectivess was hampered by chronic cloud cover over German targets. Also, it wasn't exactly a secret. Herman Lang, a German-born engineer who worked for the company manufacturing the bombsight, passed critical information about the device to Nazi Germany. In the late 1930s, Lang, working as a spy for the Abwehr (German military intelligence), was able to provide drawings and details to the Nazis, even before the U.S. entered the war.
Although Lang’s stolen plans helped Germany understand the device, they were incomplete and didn't provide the full technical know-how needed for precise replication. As a result, while the Nazis were aware of the bombsight's basic operation, they could not fully duplicate its functionality. However, they helped make sense of material retrieved by the Nazis from downed US bombers.
While the A-bomb ended the war, Radar won it!!!
Your video's and Chanel are incredible. it's a great contribution to ensure that these men's legacy and sacrifices are remembered forever! Thanks for the content.
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Excellent video. It would be difficult these days to find 2 brothers to fight as hard as they did. Let alone from the same family. Thank you, gentlemen!
there is no need to fight any offensive operation, your life is more precious than anyone else's profit
It is even more difficult to find two brothers from different families
To fly in a bomber you had to have balls that clanked! I honestly can't imagine being that brave
The military spent millions on this piece of equipment but this bombsight was way oversold and had very little effect on the bomb runs at such a high altitude...
At any altitude
There was a competing design that was better , but did not get the funding ( politics ) ... .
I wonder how much of the fanfare behind this thing was just cover for the real prize which was the proximity fuse. Keep the nazi's looking for the bomb sight when it's junk. They did the same thing by spreading the lie that carrots made you see better at night. That's how they were spotting planes. No no. Ignore the radar behind me.
I haven't heard of a demonstrably superior horizontal bombsight by any air force of that period. But yeah - the Norden was wildly overhyped.
Yeah, the title of this video, pretty well sums up the hype of the norden bombsight! lol
Oh, a thumbnail that shows relevance to the video, finally? Amazing
I hate those thumbs nails that have nothing to do with the video. This is the first one that I have seen that the thumb nail that's fits the video.
@@ronniewestherly3435 either he learned from it or just happened to be a one-time case. I guess we'll learn with the next video.
I understand that for many people it's not a big issue, but at some point it became really stupid and repetitive how the thumbnails had no correlation with the content.
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And who are you the f****** thumbnail police would you stopped getting on this dude about his thumbnails. Because frankly it's getting a bit obsessive. At least this dude's thumbnails aren't over exaggerated. But you pointing out all the stupid s*** you point out. get a f****** new hobby dude. And your above smart ass attempt at an apology or whatever you want to call it doesn't help your case any. And man I feel sorry for your friends if this is kind of s*** you complain about
The bomb site was so effective that General LeMay finally had to order the B-29's to fly at suicidality low altitude to hit anything.
… due to unsuspected high altitude ‘jet streams’ over Japan…
The Japanese were aware of them, & used them to launch balloon bomb attacks on the Pacific NW of the States & Canada…
… hoping to ignite vast forest fires.
@@ericjohnson9468Even without high altitude winds the Norden was horribly inaccurate.
It was accepted based on fraudulent test results.
look into Rotterdam (where LeMay also participated) 31 March 1943... also a shameful piece of precise bombing...
The cavity magnetron arguably was more important.
The cavity magnetron sounds like a sex toy lol
@@utbdoug *Erotic sax soundtrack* The Cavity Magnetron... for her AND him.
Dude do you go sleep at night after editing your vids? Your story telling is amazing mate… been following all your pages for years. Please keep up the content
Man crush ..
It irks me when people who should know better call it the Congressional Medal of Honor. It is the Medal of Honor.
Hell of a story, thanks!
To the Mathis boys...*holding a shot to the sky..
(wispering) are we whispering so we don't wake up your parents????
"I'm horny, and I have bronchitis "
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It's a bedtime story 😁
God bless the greatest generation 🙏
I wonder if they took the engine of the F4U Corsair onto the B-17 would they have upped the speed enough to cut down on the huge losses they had!
@@dennisud the 1820 had 1200bhp the 2800 had 2450bhp. Imagine 4 of those strapped to a b17. It would have been insane.
I hate to correct you as you are normally very correct. The B-17 was not the best bomber in Europe for the US. That honor was actually for the B-24. The 24 had a larger bomb capacity than the 17 and was equal in firepower or greater depending on the model.
I agree on the first part - but the Lancaster could carry 22,000 lbs, had only 7 crew, and (even though it usually flew only at night) a lower loss rate.
"Pinpoint"? Less than 16% of all bombs dropped landed within 1000 feet of the actual target. the bombers used accuracy by volume tactics
That was pinpoint back then lol
NO, it wasn't. Pinpoint was what was achieved by the Mosquito and their crews.@@utbdoug
@@0ldb1ll You still don't get it do you? Yes, other aircraft were more accurate. But the USAAC's saturation bombing had a much looser definition of "Pinpoint". Just because something else is more accurate, doesn't negate what USAAC classes as pinpoint. FFS. They could hit within 500 metres and could potentially be classes as pinpoint.
Carpet bombing just entered the conversation.
Great video
Presscion bombing was deemed to be within 2 miles of target ! Also proximity fuse AA shells were just as war winning.
The bombsite originally was built for the USN. They decided they didn't want it (same with the RAF) but were reluctant to give them to the USAAF. The original Nordens were handmade precision instruments. During the war there was no way Norden could make the required amount in their upper story NYC loft. Manufacturing was farmed out to other companies - Singer Sewing Machine Company comes to mind. Quality control went out the window. A not terribly useful object became an almost totally useless object at that point. The Norden Company was sold to Westinghouse in Baltimore in the 90's. Norden would give bombsites to employees as gifts. After the sale Westinghouse employees found complete bombsites in the Norden dumpsters.
I’d imagine the sights made by Singer would’ve been top notch quality.
My only reason for this, is the Singer built Colt 1911’s are highly sought after; on account of the tooling ability of the Singer factories/workers.
People forget how advanced technology was at the time. Not everything happened after color TV ✈️
Fun fact: the first color TV was actually demonstrated in 1928
@@hippomormorand most of the Americans filmed on color film getting war footage
HI. EITHER I GOT A BAD SOUNDTRACK TRANSMITTED, OR YOU HAVE A COLD?? IF SO, HOPE YOU FEEL BETTER SOON!! AND "THE B-17 WAS THE 2ND MOST POWERFUL BOMBER TO THE B29" WHAT ABOUT THE B24??
The b29 came late.
@ 11:19 , Major Calhoun looks strkingly similar to a famous actor named Clark Gable.
Who remembers that episode of Hogan’s Heroes?
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And that bombsight is still the most advanced mechanical computer ever mass-produced. The technology was abandoned after the war.
Great video. It came to mind, when you described the duties of each member of the B29 crew, that today, a drone can do every task better. I guess from a risk/reward point of view,, that is good, but war in general, is not good.
Germany knew about this site before war began. They captured plenty of them from show down bombers,they compare it to own bomb sites,came to decision that it was no better thier own bomb site,they might change something s to thier own sites,but what I read online they didn't.
Rejected by the RAF after early war trials proved it was no better than what they had which was pretty poor itself in the early days .
The Norden Bombsight was a SECOND-RATE bombsight - it wasn't as good as the sight used by the RAF or it's competitor, Sperry, or even it's German counterpart. The ONLY reason it was so "acclaimed" was the PUBLICITY STUNTS pulled by the manufacturer.
The Germans got their hands on a Norton and thought it was not as good as theirs.
That's interesting. Where can I read about that?
@@Gandalf47 -- there was a spy at the Norton company. The Germans thought it was more expensive and more complicated than theirs and no better.
According to the book Combat Crew, written by someone who flew on the B17 over Europe, what happened was the lead bombardier in the lead bomber aimed at the target, the rest of the formation just pickled the bombs upon seeing the lead bombers bombs falling..
Fantastico jack..... Respect from Vietnam... Allahu akhbar.
the sad truth that the Germans did get working copy of the Nordon bomb sight and said it was very accurate. we had a better bomb sight, but Nordon had better marketing. I wish i could remember the source it I read it a while ago.
But it was actaully crap, only 5% of bombs landed within 1500ft of the target.
As per Lord Hardthrasher???
No as per the facts.
He's right ..@@EugeneMurray-z1b
Your sources?
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Bombing accuracy with the Norden improved through the course of the war. In 1943, about 20% of the bombs dropped visually by the Eighth Air Force hit within 1,000 feet of the aiming point-by the end of the war, about 50% of the bombs dropped visually hit within 1,000 feet of the target.
Almost Touch each other? The wings were overlapped
b/s like the germans could not build a bomb sight ..they could build jet planes , big tanks , atom bombs , top machine guns , assault rifles , . subs, , flying bombs v-1 and v-2's could not build a sight
I have one of these in my office
Ive actually heard from numerous reputable sources that the Norden Bomb Sight was actually Shit and didn't work worth a shit,
But that that fact was what was really top secret, kept under wraps as to not let the enemy know how shit it was and hoping for a propaganda win of it causing dread & panic within the Axis forces .. BUT I can understand it's not easy to continually come up with content .
I drive a Fiat Fullback 2.4 4x4 Auto. It weighs half a ton less and does everything these do... Crazy how heavy these have gotten...
1.2x speed corrects the play speed and fixes speech. Why so slow today? Are you trying to string it out?
Exactly what I thought especially with the over the top descriptions. "Explosions blossomed around" etc etc
Amazing what technology they had
I love old war stories. Have you ever heard about old 666 the b17 bomber that was in the Pacific theater, the crew built and re-engineered it to be better. All out of salvaged parts.
Especially over Japan, THE JET STREAM so disrupted General Curtis LeMay's B-29 bombing of Japanese infrastructure, he resorted to low level incendiary bombing. The Norden Bombsite was over hyped, oversold & expensive for the results it produced.
Was it worth it? Opinions are mixed.
No, the Norden was not crap or oversold, but it was hard to use. Put it in the hands of someone who didn’t know how to use it, of course it underperformed. It also depended on the bravery of the crew. A lot of crews were just plain scared and released their bombs before they reached the target.
Bombs flattered down instead of falling. Only the 6 ton Big Boy was falling, but too heavy for American bombers to carry.
Just how accurate was this bomb sight?
Are you okay dude? You sound exhausted.
The Germans captured hundreds of bomb sights. The Norden was better at high altitudes but the RAF sight was better at low to medium altitudes.
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Are we watching the Masters as well. Whispering?
9:51 Not sure why you are showing low altitude bombing runs conducted by the 5th Air Force in the Pacific in this video. The Norden bombsight would never have been used for that purpose in that theatre of the war.
What resulted in the loss of so many American aircraft was the stupid idea of flying in formation. Find one aircraft and you have the entire flight.
That's funny stuff at 4:10 Engineer is taking care of things. Looks like he is pumping out the Sh*tter. Before the bomb run. Or is it the puker????
The Brits used a similar clockwork analogue computer bombsite in The Vulcan to hit the runway at Port Stanley
Only one direct hit...
The Argentinians put mounds of soil on it to give the impression of more hits to the recon...
That said Harrier ground attack made damn sure at very low level!
Falklands War 1982!
In the 1960s I worked in the USAF on the AN/ASB-15 Bombing-Navigation system on B-52D aircraft. At tech school where we learned to maintain that system we learned that the Norden was really an inaccurate piece of crap.
Maybe by today's standards, but when the alernative was nothing maybe that piece of crap was better. I can think of a whole list of WWII era equipment that, by today's standards were a "piece of crap". For example, about 4 minutes in, the task of each crew member of the B29 was describeed. Today, a drone can do it better. I'm just saying.
@@Gandalf47 Unfortunately it wasn't even good by WWII standards.
From 5 miles up? 26000 feet
11:20 Umm...Clark Gable?
The Germans were aware of the Norden before the US was in the war.
We're actually expected to believe 1) that the Axis didn't get their hands on dozens of Norden bomb sights- since masses of bombers were being shot down daily? 2) that bomb site wasn't over hyped junk? 2) mass bombing missions relied on 1 single aircraft to guide them and no backup when that one got shot down? You make a lot of good videos but this one seems like a pile of nonsense.
the B-29
Not a real dive into the Norden Sight. Because it was not that good.
I disagree. I may be wrong but I believe the B-24 Liberator, due to it's greater bombload and other attributes, was a more powerful bomber than the B-17. Imo that is.
Did the doors blow out on them back then to .those were some brave men
how secretive can any weapon be if youtube knows about it?
The average bombload of a B17 was 6,000 lbs and could be as low as 4,650 lbs, whereas that of the Lancaster was 14,000 lbs.
The Norden bombsight was severely overrated. It just wasn't that good.
That doesn't mean to say it wasn't the most advanced and most secret technology at the time lol
Psssh it could drop a bomb in a pickle barrel I seen them do it! Trust me! Psssh
@@utbdoug The Germans was just as good, they captured a number of them in down aircraft, assessed the Norden sight and found it was no better than theirs.
Questions: germans were not aware about the Norden bomsight ?
An American employee at the bombsight factory sold the Germans a blueprint of sight before the war began.
@@michaelburgoyne4224 can't believe...
I believe the Germans knew of the site, but felt it was comparable to what they already had.
The thing is, they had the blueprints, and hardware, but it didn’t matter. Good or bad, it was used by the US, and there was nothing they could do about it.
No, they weren't aware of the more major secret...that it was absolute Shite ..
I had always heard that the Norden was a lot of hype and very overrated but what do I know?
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Psssst..... why are you whispering?
True stories like this must be amplified in the American news story of freedom of our heroic history! I mean, just imagine if 2 American brothers from your town were tracked by aggressive Russian or Chinese hi-tech fighters! How aggressive would you want CNN or your local news station to truthfully cover this event? And to what extent to its conclusion?
Carpet bombing pen point accuracy?? Who the hell told you this bs?
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The Germans got a Norden Bombsite but after inspection and testing rejected it as inferior to the German one they were using
Austin speaking slowly doesn't feel right lol
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The Liberator totally out classed the Fortress and many more were built!
Did you know Sears made a gun called The liberator. It was a single shot pistol. they were dropped from the sky in world war II. In hopes that they would be used to kill Nazis.
Top secret? Not by a long shot. The Germans had copies of the specs before the 8th AF dtarted using it.
It's pretty well known the Norden bombsight was nothing more than overhyped marketing propaganda that fell way short of its promised effectiveness. Most bombardiers at the time actually thought it straight up sucked and some even said if you hit the intended target it was pure luck as the bombsight was irrelevant.
How did the bombardier protect the Norton site "with his life". Was there a destruction mechanism that he could start?
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It is simply the “Medal of Honor”. MoH, there is no “congressional”, it’s a colloquialism left over from someone who misspoke, thanks
Omg
Again America is a contienent, the US is a country
For obvious reasons this video is nothing more and nothing less than a propaganda film, but in the real world it is widely known that the Norden bomb sight was a pile of poo 💩, it was difficult to use and even more difficult to get bombs onto the target, dropping bombs into pickle barrels it was not capable of doing. Contrary to popular belief the United States actually offered the Norden to the RAF and were categorically told to, politely, go away, it wasn’t even the best bomb sight that the USAAF could have had, but the owner of Norden bribed officials to have his offering accepted. When the Nazis did get their hands on one they didn’t want it after their extensive examination and testing of it, sorry to say but not everything the USA came up with was/is the best.
If you’re going to make these videos and claim expertise get things right. There is no such thing as the “Congressional Medal of Honor “
It is the MEDAL OF HONOR.
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way overrated.
First.
That bombsite sucked!! Never worked properly, or even close to the hype!!
The B-24 flew higher, was faster, flew further and carried more bomb load. The B-17 was pretty.
The Norden bombsight was a very expensive bust. It was too complicated and it was ineffective unless visibilty was perfect. Read an excellent book THE BOMBER MAFIA for the best info on the entire bombing campaign.