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Major Thomas Ferebee the Bombardier.
He was responsible for operation of the Norden bombsight. After setting the bombsight up and locating the Aim Point in its crosshairs he requested Colonel Paul Tibbets the Commander and Pilot to transfer control of the plane to the bombsight. Once he verified that the Norden bombsight was properly controlling the plane Ferebee flipped the Autorelease switch on the bombsight to allow the bombsight to do the drop automatically without further attention. After that he had nothing more to do until a second or so after the bomb dropped, when he flipped a switch on the bombsight returning control of the plane back to Tibbets.
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The Norden Bombsight facilitated day bombings ~ see related link below .
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There were no airborne digital computers, in the modern sense of the word and digital computers were too big, at the time of World War II. The Norden bomb sight was worked out by Norden with the help of a slide rule. It did amount to an analog mechanical computer, the object being to compute bombing solutions in real time. It was quite effective in coastal bombing applications, because of the relatively "flat" (accurate) radar reflections off of water. It's accuracy in terrestrial bombing was much better than "dead reckoning", but not nearly as accurate as advertised (the skill of the bombardier made a great difference). The original design of the Norden was "leaked" to the Germans by a Norden employee as early as 1940, and the German bombsight was a fairly close copy of the Norden.
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The Norden sight was designed for use on US Navy aircraft by Carl Norden, a Dutch engineer educated in Switzerland who emigrated to the US in 1904 and worked on bombsights at the Sperry Corporation before starting his own company. The Norden was later adopted by the USAAF. The Norden was initially built at the Norden plant in New York City before the start of WWII and then at several other companies during the war, with a wide variety of different versions being built, all with minor differences.
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Norden Bombsight, WW2 submarine torpedo targeting and fire control computer. Both done entirely with gears, wheels, levers, etc. some electric motors and syncro-motors were used too. No electronics.
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Hogan's Heroes - 1965 Bombsight - 5.7 was released on:
USA: 7 November 1969
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Forsikringsselskapet Norden was created in 1867.
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Peter Van Norden's birth name is Peter Edward Van Norden.
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The address of the Lake Norden Historical Society is: 1103 Main Ave, Lake Norden, SD 57248
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Norden is a city in Germany (Lower Saxony). It does not have a capital.
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Eduard Norden has written:
'Ennius und Vergilius'
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Beatrice Norden was born on March 11, 1938, in Cologne, Germany.
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Christine Norden's birth name is Thornton, Mary Lydia.
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Francisco Norden was born on November 9, 1929, in Brussels, Belgium.
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