They are our B-17s!: Norden Bombsight Training Facilities in Montana

Presentation by Kate Hampton
During the 1930s, the US Army Air Corps and Department of Defense instigated parallel programs to augment the military’s capacity for strategic bombing. As the Allies catapulted to war by the end of that decade, the United States worked to perfect two of the country’s most closely held secret weapons: the B17 Bomber and the Norden Bombsight. Montana Historical Society community preservation coordinator Kate Hampton speaks about Montana's four top-secret training facilities, where hundreds of airmen learned to crew the massive “Flying Fortresses” and to master the precision bombsight.