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Description
Mr. Reid describes in detail the technique of aiming bombs. He adds some comments about improving technology.
Transcription
Oh what you'd see of course was the, the target indicator, that's what you were after. Now mind you, if that target indicator, and it was dropped by a master bomber, but if it was at, on the, it was erroneously positioned, the master bomber would tell you what corrections to make to counteract that mistake, if there was one. If there wasn't of course you'd follow through as is. Well, we had a graticule which, yeah it did, it had a cross and when that intersection of these, of these lines and your bomb site, when they were where you felt they should be, then you released the bomb. And the, they were, they were very good at it, of course that's what they were trained to do, and all of us, and we all improved as we went, the same as our equipment. I mean, when you think of the aircraft we started out with and we only had twin engine, then we bumped up to the four engine, and...