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Offline Wmaker

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Re: Name that WW2 Thing
« Reply #165 on: November 01, 2014, 01:21:08 PM »
Quote from: Charge on November 01, 2014, 01:09:22 PM
Lukas Harold manufactured Mark 15 Mod 7 sight head (L-518)?

The proper term of sight head mentioned for the first time, points for that.

...but, nope. :)
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Re: Name that WW2 Thing
« Reply #166 on: November 01, 2014, 04:16:18 PM »
Air Corps M-7 with AGLD missing. It is possible it is a very early Norden training sight head.





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Re: Name that WW2 Thing
« Reply #167 on: November 02, 2014, 10:50:18 PM »
Those norden bomb sights are neat, I worked on a lady's house several years back whose husband was a bombardier and had his sight in his office.  He flew b26s and was shot down, the plane next to him in formation had taken a picture of it
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Re: Name that WW2 Thing
« Reply #168 on: November 03, 2014, 10:30:03 AM »
Quote from: bustr on November 01, 2014, 04:16:18 PM
Air Corps M-7 with AGLD missing. It is possible it is a very early Norden training sight head.

(Image removed from quote.)

(Image removed from quote.)



Sorry for the late reply,

Nope.

A strong hint: It is indeed a Norden copy but not a "legal" or licenced one...
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Re: Name that WW2 Thing
« Reply #169 on: November 03, 2014, 11:58:47 AM »
Would this be the Japanese NORUDEN made as a copy of a Norden taken from a downed B25?
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Re: Name that WW2 Thing
« Reply #170 on: November 03, 2014, 01:57:41 PM »





sure wish I could have talked to her husband, imagine he had some stories  :salute
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Re: Name that WW2 Thing
« Reply #171 on: November 03, 2014, 02:17:19 PM »
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Re: Name that WW2 Thing
« Reply #172 on: November 03, 2014, 03:15:09 PM »
Quote from: bustr on November 03, 2014, 11:58:47 AM
Would this be the Japanese NORUDEN made as a copy of a Norden taken from a downed B25?

It is a Japanese Norden copy, yes. Do you know the exact name? ;)
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Re: Name that WW2 Thing
« Reply #173 on: November 03, 2014, 04:44:45 PM »
There were eventually three models, no real production.

Type 4 Automatic Bombing Sight, February Showa 19 (1944)
Type 1 Model 2. Type 4 improvement Showa 20. Officially adopted by wars end.
Model 10, Showa 20. Performance improvements.
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Re: Name that WW2 Thing
« Reply #174 on: November 03, 2014, 05:31:21 PM »
Quote from: bustr on November 03, 2014, 04:44:45 PM
There were eventually three models, no real production.

Type 4 Automatic Bombing Sight, February Showa 19 (1944)
Type 1 Model 2. Type 4 improvement Showa 20. Officially adopted by wars end.
Model 10, Showa 20. Performance improvements.

Yeh, this particular model is the Army Model 10.

Japanese got a hold of a Norden from a crashed B-24 at Rabaul in 1942.
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Re: Name that WW2 Thing
« Reply #175 on: November 04, 2014, 09:40:31 AM »
Your up Bustr :salute
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Re: Name that WW2 Thing
« Reply #176 on: November 04, 2014, 02:45:50 PM »
WMaker was very kind to help me see how rude I was with my gunsight post. This is more in line with the thingy silliness.

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Re: Name that WW2 Thing
« Reply #177 on: November 04, 2014, 04:58:44 PM »
Romanian semi-portable combat latrene!
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Re: Name that WW2 Thing
« Reply #178 on: November 04, 2014, 09:05:33 PM »
That's looking down a propeller shaft at the muzzle of a MG 151  :x
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Re: Name that WW2 Thing
« Reply #179 on: November 04, 2014, 09:06:48 PM »
Whatever it is, I'm pretty sure we're on the wrong end of it.
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