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Better known as a bomb-release control, these devices enabled
bombardiers to regulate the number of bombs dropped per re-
lease and, for a given airspeed, their spatial patterning. For
example, type B-2A intervalometers, which were commonly
employed on B-17s, afforded great flexibility in selecting the
number of bombs released at one time (from zero to 50) and the
impact distance between bombs (seven to 750 feet).
According to Staff Sergeant Tagge, Ezzard's crew conducted
three bomb runs. The first deployed one bomb as a test, just
downstream from the Seventh Street bridge, followed by two
runs in which six bombs were dropped on each pass. Tagge em-
phasizes that these bombs were "triggered to detonate under-
water." Subsequent explosions produced loud "whooshes" and
eruptive columns of mud, water and ice that swirled upward to,
perhaps, 150 feet in the air.
The ice jam began to break apart in the next hour, much to the
relief of hundreds of onlookers and a radio audience that lis-
tened intently to Ian Elliot's live coverage of the event, which
was broadcast from atop Garfield School on KRJF, 1340 AM.
Normal water flow resumed soon thereafter, which resulted in a
10-foot drop in water levels over the next 24 hours.
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