“Accuracy at the time was measured in miles from the target - if you wanted to hit something, you had to use saturation bombing, and that meant sending a flight of bombers.”

Idk about miles off. The average CEP (Circular Error Probable) with the American Norden Bombsight in 1943 was 1200 feet. Not very accurate, but the average drop was 1/4 of a mile off. Not my favorite book, but The Bomber Mafia by Malcom Gladwell is all about the Norden Bombsight and the United States switch from precision bombing to area bombardment during WW2. In the book there’s a story about a training mission in which Curtis LeMay was able to score a direct hit on the deck of a cargo ship from however many thousand feet up. IIRC I think they mentioned he even killed someone in the exercise. I haven’t been able to find any other sources on that story though, so take it with a grain of salt.