The bizarre aircraft was a German-made Vergeltungswaffen ("vengeance weapon") -- now known as the V1 Flying Bomb. It was the first-ever use of a cruise missile in human warfare and the first of ...

The Allied pilots call it the diver, doodle-bug or flying Bomb. Several times a day special ... This sometimes resulted in debris from the exploding V1 flying into the Spitfire’s fuselage.