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Untold War Stories@UntoldWarFacts

American bombardiers said they could drop a bomb into a pickle barrel from 20,000 feet. The device they used to do it cost America over a billion dollars to build. 90,000 of them were manufactured du...

SummaryThe Norden bombsight was a sophisticated electromechanical computer used by the U.S. during WWII to drop bombs with unprecedented accuracy from 20,000 feet, treated as one of America's most closely guarded secrets with extraordinary security measures. However, the plans were stolen by Nazi spy Hermann Lang in 1938 and delivered to German intelligence, compromising the entire program before the war even began. Despite the security theater and $1 billion investment, the bombsight's actual accuracy in combat fell far short of promises, yet it was still used to aim the atomic bombs dropped on Japan.Sep 3, 20265 tweets♥ 2.5K