Bombardier of a Navy plane uses Norden bombsight to determine when to release his bombs in November 1944
U.S. Navy Official photograph, Gift of Charles Ives, from the Collection of The National World War II Museum
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"File No: 47150 November 25, 1944. Eyes and "Mechanical Brain" on the target. Bombardier of a Navy plane uses famed and still secret Navy Norden bombsight to determine just when to release his bombs. Designed by Carl L. Norden and Captain Frederick I. Entwistle, USN, Assistant Chief of Research and Development of the Bureau of Ordnance, the bombsight is used by Army as well as Navy and Marine bombers. The device, when fed certain information by the bombardier, computes how far ahead of the target the bombs must be dropped to "arc in" to the objective." 25 November 1944
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The Charles Ives Collection consists of 719 photographs from the Pacific Theater of WWII. Many of the photographs were taken between 1944 and 1945. Mr. Ives inherited the photographs from a friend from Marblehead, Massachusetts who served as an aviator in the Army Air Corps and discharged as a Major in 1945.
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