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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (135930)	6/7/2004 8:05:45 PM
From: Hawkmoon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

My father, who spent 4 years in the war, used to laugh about American ability to "drop a bomb in a barrel". Missing by a mile was apparently the norm. It would depend on quite a few variables.. winds, turbulence, anti-aircraft fire dispersing the formation, the calibration of the Norden bombsight.. etc, from what I understand. But in testing, it was apparently very accurate. But those are always under ideal conditions, as we all know. As seen on tv, yesterday, the bombing on D-day was bad, with a lot of cattle and French farmers having bombs rained down on them, but coastal defences were missed. Yeah... pretty shocking that while 12,000 allied troops died in the hedgerows, some 20,000 French civilians were killed as well.. Hawk