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To: Homer_J_Simpson

The Germans’ flirtation with strategic bombing died with Walter Wever. Between Udet’s fixation with putting dive brakes on anything and everything, Hitler’s desire for masses of aircraft ASAP, and the reality that the Luftwaffe was going to be, basically, a tactical, ground support air force, the brass decided that the the Norden had no practical apllication for what they were doing.


20 posted on 09/10/2011 6:50:21 AM PDT by PzLdr ("The Emperor is not as forgiving as I am" - Darth Vader)
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To: PzLdr; CougarGA7
the brass decided that the the Norden had no practical apllication for what they were doing.

In addition to the factors you mentioned, I get the idea from the museum plaque above that the Norden was designed for daylight bombing. For their raids on England, didn't the Luftwaffe prefer to operate at night to avoid British fighters?

21 posted on 09/10/2011 8:48:04 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
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