Again your our assertion that navigation was hardly an issue here is very incorrect, the list is long. Such as "Operation Tidal Wave" a single raid ,that you keep talking about like it was the only raid on Ploiesti , where Col. Keith K. Compton identified "the wrong" set of rail tracks at the Targovist check point and Compton then followed these wrong set of railway tracks on his turn into the Ploiesti oil fields, leading the formation in from the wrong heavily defended direction which, as we know, proved especially costly. 53 B-24's lost. 440 KIA. 220 MIA/POW. "Operation Tidal Wave" that you call famous was well documented because of it's heavy losses.
Finding a city and finding a target were two different matters entirely in the 1940's, especially NOE.
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