The above aerial view was taken with the United States Army’s new billion-candlepower photographic bomb. At the conclusion of a noisy preview of the weapon by which the army hopes to penetrate darkness-shrouded military operations, Major George W. Goddard exclaimed: “There have been times when an extra hour of daylight would have changed the history of the world. We have that daylight here!” A dozen times, the secret bomb burst over Rochester, each time lighting a five-mile area “with the light of day.” Each time, too, a synchronised aerial camera snapped the scene from 5000 feet.
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Northern Advocate, 10 December 1940, Page 8
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96The above aerial view was taken with the United States Army’s new billion-candlepower photographic bomb. At the conclusion of a noisy preview of the weapon by which the army hopes to penetrate darkness-shrouded military operations, Major George W. Goddard exclaimed: “There have been times when an extra hour of daylight would have changed the history of the world. We have that daylight here!” A dozen times, the secret bomb burst over Rochester, each time lighting a five-mile area “with the light of day.” Each time, too, a synchronised aerial camera snapped the scene from 5000 feet. Northern Advocate, 10 December 1940, Page 8
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