Originally Posted by
Tankertrashnav
Please sir, why sir, what did I say sir?
Blimey, post 50, and so far no-one's brought up the old chestnut
I am sure that earlier on, before the introduction of the Pathfinder force equipped with Oboe and H2s, navigation errors such as this would have been commonplace.
Having read some of our sqn 540, the errors early on were +/-5 miles if you were lucky and also subject to creep back. In 1944, as a Lancaster pathfinder sqn the accuracy was 400 yards.
We must remember though that their night nav was wholly different from the V-Force. The V-force was a 24hr a day mission whereas Bomber Command then could largely chose the time and place. Early on they had to pick clear moonlit nights looking for shine on water features. Only with the advent of electronic aides and sky marking could they bomb through cloud and navigate on dark nights.