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Nicknamed "buzz bombs" because of the distinctive sound of their pulsejet engines, the V1 created the drain on morale their Nazi creators intended.
Just before dawn on 22 August 1944 a German V1 flying bomb, launched from across the English Channel, smashed down into residential homes around Vincent Street in Westminster, central London.
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.
John “Jack” Addie Forrest OstJ, Spitfire pilot and engineer. Born: 13 April, 1921 in Airdrie. Died: 27 February, 2023, in Aberdeen, aged 101.
In the BBC Transcript made by Squadron Leader Berry he describes his method of shooting down the flying bombs, and a description of the V1 he shot down over West Malling airfield, for which he was ...
A gunman opened fire at a school in Austria’s second-biggest city on Tuesday. AFP via Getty Images Police added that a pipe bomb found at his home was not functional.
In the past two months, there have been a number of school shooting and bomb threats in our area, with one Forest Hills student being arrested for threats just ...
The bomb had glided 300 or 400 yards beyond the school's playground, and had hit a row of houses at the bottom of the hill, destroying three and killing two or three people.
Another bomb threat shut down the Roebling Bridge for the second time, following a threat that was made on Wednesday.
Fighter planes were shooting at the flying bombs, and anti-aircraft guns were also firing but many of them were getting through to London.