Cub Driver wrote:

Reading what appears to be a solid history of FDR and espionage.
Author makes the flat statement that in 1940 someone in the Norden
plant smuggled out the plans, which went to Germany. From these, the
Germans "developed their own bombsight," presumably based on the
Norden. The author points out the irony that at this point we still
wouldn't give Britain the bombsight (we did later).

Any truth to this? What part if any of the Norden sight did the
Germans utilize?

The story has been on the history channel. A worker at the Norden plant
stole blueprints and gave them to the Germans. As I recall from the
program, the Germans were able to reproduce the bombsight, but didn't
use it in combat.

--
Jim

carry on