How To Use Bombsight In A Sentence
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The navigator has a bombsight and celestial data as a guide.
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After we decided the thing was not going to burn, the bombardier got in the nose to take out the bombsight and I got in the cockpit to get the classified papers.
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An observer leans over the fuselage of an aircraft to use a Mark 1-A bombsight, the first one designed for aircraft use.
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We had a very intense crosswind on this particular heading, and by the time I had fully engaged the bombsight we had drifted considerably south of my chosen position.
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However, unlike the Allies' atomic bomb, electronic warfare, or Norden bombsight, the Germans were unable to reap benefits from their investment.
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Then he'd look through the Norden bombsight, bouncing in his seat from the flak bursts, release the bombs and utter ‘bombs away’.
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So I'm turning my bombsight in for the duration.
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Professor James Moriarty, Sherlock Holmes's mortal enemy, wants to get his hands on a revolutionary new bombsight.
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He pressed FDR for the military hardware, for which Churchill was desperate: seaplanes, bombers, the Sperry bombsight for British warplanes, and above all the destroyers.
Wild Bill Donovan
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Under the AAF, women were assigned to highly responsible positions including jobs as weather observers and forecasters, cryptographers, radio operators and repairmen, sheet metal workers, parachute riggers, link trainer instructors, bombsight maintenance specialists, aerial photograph analysts and control tower operators.
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Furthermore, until nearly the end of the war, the vaunted “pickle barrel” accuracy claimed for the Norden bombsight was more myth than reality.
Whirlwind
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Tobin has developed a bombsight which is believed will make the difference in the war, and could cause untold damage to England should it fall into Nazi hands.
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As the sergeant/bombardier adjusted his bombsight for drift, the pilot followed it with small turn corrections to keep the needle centered.
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In 1940, he became an engineer for the Sperry Gyroscope Co. in New York, where he worked on bomber navigation systems and the Norden bombsight mechanism.
Robert F. Garbarini, engineer and former Western Union executive, dies at age 91
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Maybe there was a zero error bombsight company, but the company that makes reels now made time bombs for drilling.
Here is your test question for today boys and girls.
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Toward the end of the war, electronic bombsights, which could aim through clouds, gave American bombers some precision-bombing capability.
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Along the way, he taught himself everything worth knowing about the Norden bombsight.
Whirlwind
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Calhoun heard him call out on the interphone, “Bombs…”—and slump on his bombsight before he could complete the sentence.
Masters of the Air
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During World War II, optical photoreconnaissance was the answer to finding and destroying military targets through optical images and bombsights.
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Norden bombsights were replaced by 20 cent improvised models to prevent the secret devises from falling into enemy hands.
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Because the Bristol fighters that equipped many of the units flying air control lacked bombsights, only very low-level attacks came close to the target.
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Flying at 14,000 feet, their new Mark XIV bombsight gave them an excellent target to aim at.
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Army Air Forces planners in World War II hoped to achieve unprecedented bombing accuracy with the Norden bombsight.
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The Norden bombsight from World War II was supposedly accurate enough to place a bomb in a pickle barrel from 20,000 feet.
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During World War II, optical photoreconnaissance was the answer to finding and destroying military targets through optical images and bombsights - changing the way modern wars are fought and, thus, the course of history.
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The armorer-gunner reported the guns appeared serviceable; the bombsight and the automatic pilot also checked out as serviceable.
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He invented an automatic bombsight patented by the USA and in 1936 designed an all-metal trainer and high-speed fighter.
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The British hoped to find out about an effective bombsight they coveted, but they also aimed simply to "create goodwill"—Mr. Phelps provides an appendix with minutes of the group's first meeting—so that the Americans, who were also working on radar development, would lend a hand.
Allied in the Quest for Radar
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On another night, they cruise in a bomber over Kandahar, one flying the aircraft, the other with his eyes glued to a bombsight.
