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CREEPBACK

Creepback

Creepback (or creep-back) is the tendency of bomber aircraft using optical bombsights to release their weapons aimed at target markers before time, leading

Creepback

Bombing of Hamburg in World War II

by the Pathfinders. During the raid a large (9.7-kilometre or 6-mile) creepback developed which saved the city centre from catastrophe but caused other

Bombing of Hamburg in World War II

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Bomber (novel)

War novel by Len Deighton

Christmas Tree marker pyrotechnics are placed over the wrong target. Creepback causes the carpet bombing of a town of 5,000 inhabitants by a force designed

Bomber (novel)

Bomber_(novel)

Big Week

1944 series of aerial bombings of German industry by the U.S. during WWII

of the built-up districts of the city. Little damage was done due to creepback: marker aircraft dropped markers short, and bombers dropped their payload

Big Week

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Pathfinder (RAF)

RAF target-marking squadrons in World War II

bomb on visible fires, if there were any. This led to the problem of "creepback", when the newly arriving bombers would drop their bombs on the near side

Pathfinder (RAF)

Pathfinder_(RAF)

1944 Hochdahl-Trills Handley Page Halifax shootdown

1944 aviation incident in Germany

Pathfinder Force, wind-drift of parachute flares ("Christmas trees"), or the creepback effect—where psychological stress led bombardiers to release their loads

1944 Hochdahl-Trills Handley Page Halifax shootdown

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List of friendly fire incidents

Omar Bradley to bomb east to west, along the front in order to avoid creepback, the air commanders made their attack north to south, over Allied lines

List of friendly fire incidents

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