NavList:

Some-what related:  I just finished reading the excellent book “The Battle of the Atlantic” by Andrew Williams. This book gives an excellent view of both sides of the U-Boat  war at sea.  One paragraph really struck me about the courage and skill of the long range bombers that were used early- on in an attempt to protect the convoys as they approached the middle ocean gap .  Think about this..... these relatively novice flyers with their navigators would fly 5- 6 hours , find the convoy via  CN, circle the convoy for 5 or more hours, then return home and find their base.  Impressive. Usually only one or two planes went out per convoy.

 

Also , letters written by  Anne Morrow Lindberg indicate she became  skilled with CN.  She found it “ .....amazing that one could determine location with a sextant and adding and subtracting a few numbers.....”. I assume she was using Weems 1927 methods or something slightly later . This was in the late 1920s /early 1930s.    

 

Bruce