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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Even before the first of the Nazi’s V-1 “Buzz ... bomb. Various aircraft makers began to work on prototypes, but in July 1944, just three weeks after the first Vergeltungswaffe 1 (V-1) surface ...

Archaeologists have discovered the exploded remains of a German V1 "flying ... flying bombs, and anti-aircraft artillery destroyed many V1s. But many of the so-called doodlebugs, or buzz bombs ...

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 ...

It was the time of the V1 'buzz bombs' and for some reason I telephoned my home in Stoke Newington the other side of London. My father Alfred Levy was living and working there having re ...

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 ...