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 ...

[See Photos of the V1 'Flying Bombs' of Nazi Germany] The V1 excavated at Packing Wood near Ashford in Kent, England, last month was shot down over the Kent countryside before it reached London.

discovered photograph of a V1 bomb that fell on Streatham in June 1994. It has been estimated that 88 per cent of Streatham's housing stock was damaged or destroyed in the Second World War.

In 1944, Nazi Germany launched the V1s against the UK. The V1 was a pilotless, jet-propelled flying bomb - the first of its kind in the world and a precursor to the modern cruise missile. The V1 ...

The V1 flying bomb had a wingspan of more than 16 feet (5 meters) and carried a high-explosive warhead weighing around 1,700 lbs. (850 kilograms), according to the Imperial War Museum in London ...

In 1944, Nazi Germany launched the V1s against the UK. The V1 was a pilotless, jet-propelled flying bomb - the first of its kind in the world and a precursor to the modern cruise missile.

Project leader Colin Welch told Live Science that almost 10,000 V1 flying bombs were fired mainly from launching ramps in German-controlled Holland against the southeast of England in 1944 and 1945.

Archaeologists have discovered the exploded remains of a German V1 "flying bomb" that crashed in a forest in 1944 on the way to its target in London. It was one of thousands of"retaliation weapons," ...