Did the Germans have the Norden bombsight?

Cub Driver wrote in message . ..
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).

Sounds like ****. If there was spying (I believe there was) it was
not to produce direct copies but to learn of the sites tactical
capabilities. Pretty much standard fair to try and keep abreast of
the other guys abillity.

From 1942 the Germans had the computing wind correcting Lotfe 7
bombsight in general use. It produced a great improvement in accuracy
and the German taste for dive bombing began to wane. It was evaluated
by the RAF and the report on its accuracy suggested that it even be
copied for use by the RAF.

There is no doubt that the germans were quite capable of producing
optics, gyroscopes, servo motors, gears and ball integrators.




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

None of it.


all the best -- Dan Ford
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