If you've heard anything about the Norden bomb site, the device used by Allied bombardiers

in World War II to help drop their bombs so precisely, it's either that it was incredibly

accurate so that it had to be kept a secret, or that it was actually terrible and not accurate

at all.

There is a dominant narrative here, but is it the correct one?

The Norden bomb site is coming up next on Skeptoid.

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But you didn't know about the Norden bomb site.

Ah, the famous Norden bomb site.

We gasp whenever we see one in the World War II wing of an aerospace museum.

We read the placard telling us that it was so accurate, it had to be highly classified,

and then we go home and see something about it on the internet, and we're told the exact

opposite.

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