The V1 rocket was the world's first cruise missile causing massive loss of life. The flying bomb was also known as the Buzz Bomb or Doodlebug ... modified with a small cockpit so they could ...

The night of the V1, Dad had just come off duty and was in ... staying with relatives in Portsmouth, to escape from the buzz bombs. The people in the third house were away, but their daughter ...

On June 13, 1944, the citizens of London awoke to an eerie but puzzling buzz approaching the city. The morning stillness was shattered when the buzzing stopped and a strange aircraft plummeted ...

Almost 10,000 V1 flying bombs were targeted at London, where they caused extensive damage.More than 6,000 people were killed in a few months by the V1s, which were known as "doodlebugs" or "buzz ...

These were in fact V1 bombs also known as “buzz bombs”. They had a steering system of gyros and were launched from ramps. Several were brought down by our aircraft when they attempted to flip ...

He explained how to defeat the heavily armed Luftwaffe Dornier fighter, by flying at it head-on and shooting the German pilot dead in the cockpit ... down unmanned V1 flying bombs . . .

In fact, this was the only missile of 10 launched that day that drew blood. But thousands more “buzz bombs” would come droning down from the sky in the following months, as you can see in this ...

Even before the first of the Nazi’s V-1 “Buzz Bombs” rained ... just three weeks after the first Vergeltungswaffe 1 (V-1) surface-to-surface, pilotless flying bomb struck England, engineers ...

What I found very interesting was that it had been an assembly workshop for German flying bombs. I saw at least two flying bombs, each with a cockpit and ... in a converted V1, the Fi-103R ...

What I found very interesting was that it had been an assembly workshop for German flying bombs. I saw at least two flying bombs, each with a cockpit and ... in a converted V1, the Fi-103R ...