the british continued their strategy of carpet bombing while the americans wanted to precisely target strategically important industrial and infrastructure sites. the aircraft that would carry out these raids the gigantic be seventeen the flying fortress. yet what the u.s. air force thought was its secret weapon would fit into a carrier back. it was believed so valuable that pilots had orders to keep it locked in a safe between missions. this new technology the norton bomb site. during tests it was able to hit targets on the ground with a precision of fifty meters from an altitude of four thousand six hundred meters.