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    The Norden Mk. XV, known as the Norden M series in U.S. Army service, is a bombsight that was used by the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) and the...
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    into the new tachometric bombsights, the most famous of which is the Norden. Then, in World War II, tachometric bombsights were often combined with radar...
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    Lucas Norden (April 23, 1880 – June 14, 1965), born Carel Lucas van Norden, was a Dutch-American engineer who invented the Norden bombsight. Norden was...
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    incorrectly claimed that her hair was used to make the crosshairs in the Norden bombsight, a myth perpetuated by notable personalities such as President Ronald...
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  • Lotfernrohr 7 (category Optical bombsights)
    was the primary series of bombsights used in most Luftwaffe level bombers, similar to the United States' Norden bombsight, but much simpler to operate...
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  • development of the Norden bombsight, or Mark XV, which began to replace the Mark III on new aircraft starting in 1935. Early bombsights were capable of calculating...
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    Stabilised Automatic Bomb Sight (category Optical bombsights)
    Force bombsight used in small numbers during World War II. The system worked along similar tachometric principles as the more famous Norden bombsight, but...
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  • people with the surname Norden Norden bombsight, used on US bombers during World War II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War Norden Cricket Club, an English...
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  • The Glasgow Army Airfield Norden Bombsight Vault was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2011. It is a one-story 16.5 by 13 feet (5.0 m...
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    The Mk. XIV was theoretically less accurate than the contemporary Norden bombsight. However, it was smaller, easier to use, faster-acting, and better...
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  • military targets in Bremen, Germany. Despite the use of the advanced Norden bombsight, the bombardiers are unable to confirm the targets due to heavy cloud...
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    integrators, for example, the planimeter MONIAC, economic modelling Nomogram Norden bombsight Rangekeeper, and related fire control computers Scanimate THE ANALOG...
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    of the airplane during the bombing run, using a device such as the Norden bombsight which was connected to the autopilot of the plane. Often stationed...
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    Indianapolis (NOPI) workers who were trained on a fabrication of the Norden bombsight in Manhattan during World War II. They enjoyed the open-faced sandwich...
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    glazed nose compartment and was provided with an OPB-5 bombsight based on the American Norden bombsight of the Second World War, while the pilot sat under...
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    version of the top secret Norden bombsight. Ritter achieved several major successes with the Abwehr, most notably the Norden bombsight, in addition to an advanced...
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    in 1904. In 1920, he started work on the Norden bombsight for the United States Navy. The first bombsight was produced in 1927. It was essentially an...
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    Harlingen, Texas, from 1976 to 1988. He donated a once-top-secret Norden bombsight to the CAF's B-29 bomber restoration project. In the late 1970s, as...
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    May 1945. The addition of the APA-46 and 47 "Nosmo" synchronized a Norden bombsight with the APQ-7, and the entire assembly became known as the APQ-7A...
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    mock gun barrels (broomsticks) in the tail cone. Replacement of the Norden bombsight with a makeshift aiming sight devised by pilot Capt. C. Ross Greening...
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    bombers to bomb from high altitudes with the aid of the then-secret Norden bombsight, known as the "Blue Ox", which was an optical electromechanical gyrostabilized...
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    develop new bombsights that would allow the aircraft to remain at higher altitudes. The most notable was the US Navy's Norden bombsight, which was fitted...
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    "SABS", this was an advanced bombsight mainly used by 617 Squadron for precision raids. Like the American Norden bombsight it was a tachometric sight....
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    Bombardier Thomas Ferebee with the Norden Bombsight on Tinian after the dropping of the Little Boy...
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    The Estoppey D-series was a line of inter-war era bombsights developed by Georges Estoppey of the US Army Air Corps' McCook Field, starting with the D-1...
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  • 1943 to conduct research, while the separate Carl L. Norden Corporation built Norden bombsights. In 1949, the company was purchased by Paul W. Adams....
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  • bombsight Cecily Norden (1918–2011), South African author, horse judge, rider, and breeder Christine Norden (1924–1988), British actress Claes Nordén...
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    the 1920s and 1930s, Dahlgren was involved in testing bombsights, including the Norden bombsight, for the Navy's fledgling air forces. But, until World...
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  • to a minimum of war-time casualties with new technology such as the Norden bombsight. In that regard, this was at odds with Britain's Royal Air Force' doctrine...
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    configuration including the addition of period-correct equipment such as a Norden bombsight, M2 machine guns (non-functional), bomb bay racks, and a chin turret...
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