"Eunometic" wrote in message
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nt (Krztalizer) wrote in message
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I have tracked down and interviewed ~2 dozen Mosquito airmen and read
most of
the available works about them - first I have heard this. One hundred
knots
over the target would have been absolute suicide.

TV strikes again; within a couple of years, folks will all "agree" that
this
was a fact. :\


A dozen agincourt longbowmen with fire arrows could have brought down
the wooden wonder at that speed.


Not ardly, the Germans had their work cut out
with light flak, that plywood structure was surprisingly
tough

How exactly did they aim the bombs?

They had this amazing invention called a bombsight
specifically the Mk III Low-Level (Angular Velocity)
Bombsight designed for use at altitudes below 1000 ft
and primarily used by coastal command for anti-shipping use.

Keith