Word: bombsight
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...Soaring at 30,000 feet above the polka-dotted lagoon, Dave's Dream made a dry run into the northeast wind. Bombardier Major Harold H. Wood-known to his crewmates as "Lemon Bar" because of his success at officers'-club slot machines-twirled the knobs on his bombsight, tried to line up the target ship Nevada with the cross hairs of his eyepiece. Topside, the Nevada had been painted a livid orange, striped with white. She wore her campaign ribbons painted on big boards-among them the Purple Heart with two stars (one hit at Pearl Harbor...
...famed Norden bombsight is so valued by the U.S. air forces that for long it was never left in a bomber, was always moved under armed guard. Last week, a Federal Grand Jury in Manhattan charged that Carl L. Norden Inc. (Inventor Norden is no longer associated with the company) took even greater precautions to protect its monopoly on manufacture of the sight. Result: production by other companies of the badly needed sight was blocked. The jury indicted the company, President Theodore H. Barth and Vice-President Ward B. Marvelle, along with Commander John D. Corrigan, U.S.N.R., Robert H. Wells...
...indictments, based mainly on Truman Committee findings, charged that the Norden company, ordered by the Navy Department to turn over bombsight plans to Remington Rand Inc., which was to build 8,500 "football units" (the main computing part), had blocked Remington Rand production by 1) withholding engineering advice; 2) furnishing incomplete and inaccurate specifications; 3) rejecting Remington Rand units in New York...
...famed Norden bombsight, perhaps the most closely guarded U.S. military secret of the war, last week had its first public showing. Anybody with 30? could have a look through it at Manhattan's Museum of Science and Industry (see cut), anybody at all could see it free behind a rope at a Wall Street War Bond show. But not even a spying engineer could learn much from this glimpse. The instrument, which contains some 2,000 parts and costs nearly $10,000, is so complex that, although a number of the sights have fallen into enemy hands, its inventors...
...altitude and sighting on the target. The bombardier's adjustments in lining up the target through the crosshair sight turn the plane in the right direction by means of an automatic pilot. Everything else-the bombing plane's speed, altitude, wind drift, etc. is registered automatically. The bombsight even releases the bombs, at the right, split-second moment...