Hope this is the right place for this, but I'm looking for info on how the bombsight worked during WW2. More specifically I'm curious how the bombsights of the different combatants functioned.
I'm vaguely familiar with the Norden that the US used and I know it didn't exactly live up to the pre-war hype for accuracy, even my Grandpa told me once that he flew with a bombardier in training that could put the bomb in the proverbial pickle barrel. It's my understanding that it was basically a mechanical computer that the took information fed into it and calculated a release point. I'm totally ignorant of the systems used by the other allied nations and those used by the axis however.
So I thought I'd start here and see if anyone could point me towards some info.
