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The Secret American Weapon Germany Ignored — Until It Destroyed Their War Machine:

March 1944. The Norden bombsight was supposed to revolutionize warfare through pinpoint accuracy. Instead, bombs scattered across Berlin, missing targets by over a thousand feet. German intelligence analyzed the failure and dismissed the American daylight bombing campaign as futile.
They were catastrophically wrong.
This documentary examines the paradox of the Norden bombsight: a technological marvel that failed tactically but enabled strategic victory. While German engineers correctly identified the device's limitations under combat conditions, they missed the deeper threat—America's industrial capacity to build bombers faster than they could be destroyed.
The story follows the evolution of the strategic bombing campaign from the disasters of 1943, through the development of long-range fighter escorts, to the systematic destruction of Germany's synthetic fuel industry. It reveals how precision doctrine gave way to saturation bombing, how the Luftwaffe was starved of fuel rather than shot from the sky, and how Albert Speer watched his war economy collapse under relentless aerial assault.
The Norden promised surgical strikes. America delivered industrial annihilation.
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Related Topics: Strategic bombing, USAAF Eighth Air Force, Carl Norden, precision bombing doctrine, synthetic oil campaign, P-51 Mustang, Albert Speer, Luftwaffe collapse, World War II industrial warfare