Show P Eccentric Bomb Explains Explain Wide Miss Over on where the army air force section of the task force is holding forth Maj Gen William E. E Kepner deputy com- com commander mander for air still is seeking to tod I find d an answer to the questions of reporters as to why Major Swan- Swan cutt and his crew missed the Ne Ne- Nevada N Nevada e- e evada vada or eye bulls-eye of the first test by something like 2500 feet This reporter does not believe the miss ii Was Vas that far since my calculations indicate the bomb fell astern and a a little to port of the Nevada about yards away or approximately 1800 feet At any rate fate General Kepner now comes up with an answer accord accord- according according according ing to his latest conference that the bomb was an eccentric and that the drop was in the category known as a In other words that the bomb veered and did not fall true |