Did the Germans have the Norden bombsight?

ubject: Did the Germans have the Norden bombsight?
From: "Geoffrey Sinclair"
Date: 5/5/04 12:18 AM Pacific

Walter is clearly not up on the USAAF use of ground based radio
aids in 1944 and 1945.

So Walter presumably believes the attacks on Switzerland were deliberate.

I am no longer subscribed to this NG but I do look in now and again and caught
this post. Walter is right. The attack on Switzerland was a deliberate mission
to take out the I.W.C plant in Schaffhausen in Northern Switzerland. They were
producing fuses and timers for German torpedoes. And the "lost" bomb group that
had an "accidental" release over the factory put it out of operation. We
"apologised" but it was made known to the Swiss that if that factory ever was
put back in operation we might just have another "accidental" release. All
of us who were flying at the time knew of this and had a good laugh over it and
a ":well done": as well. It is all detailed in a book titled, " The Day we
Bombed Switzerland" by the group CO who led the B-24 raid that day. I think you
owe Walt an apology.




Arthur Kramer
344th BG 494th BS
England, France, Belgium, Holland, Germany
Visit my WW II B-26 website at:
http://www.coastcomp.com/artkramer