>>11921173 lb
Believe it goes back to maybe LeMay and that Nordeen bombsight.
As it were so accurate you could drop bombs into a pickle barrel.
Pickles? Doesn't Heinz have a pickle factory in Michigan? Holland I believe, because that would loop Holland, MI pickles back to Nordeen who was Dutch.
I had just saw some of that while looking that stuff up.
Herman W. Lang, a naturalized U.S. citizen, had been employed as a draftsman and inspector at the Norden factory during the 1930s. American authorities didn’t know that he had served as Nazi stormtrooper in Germany between 1923 and 1927. Recruited as a member of the Duquesne Spy Ring, in 1938 Lang gained access to the plans for the bombsight and hand-copied the blueprints, which were then smuggled to Germany via ocean liner. He traveled to Germany for a “vacation” to assist Luftwaffe technical experts, receiving 10,000 Reichsmarks for his efforts. Lang returned to his job in America, but was later betrayed by a double agent, convicted of espionage and sentenced to 18 years in prison.