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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (135936)	6/8/2004 4:22:42 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Respond to of 281500

<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.> Then there's the "Let's drop the damn things and get the hell out of here" factor. Not everybody is calm under fire, firing accurately as they might in a test, and not everybody holds the line. Some cut and run. Mqurice