One of the commanders was curtis lamay, colonel in command of a b 24 group. He issued an order that any plane that takes off will go over the target or the crew will be court martialled. Now that's the kind of a commander he was. The abort rate dropped overnight. But that was just the beginning, because the air war over europe still faced huge problems. We didn't have any records of where most of the bombs actually fell. They were taking strike photos, but you could not locate over half the bombs that were hauled over to the continent. And when lemay looked at the strike photos after the crews had come back to base, he could see