The rocket was introduced by the Germans in 1944 and was 14m long A German V2 rocket from World War II has been found nose down in the mud flats at Harwich Harbour in the east coast of England.

At the other end of the scale, the Horten Ho X was a German concept aircraft ... during WWII, we've chosen a selection that covers everything from lumbering biplanes to rocket-powered contraptions ...

Although the rocket did not return to Earth in one ... Read also: Hidden relic: The journey of a WWII German fighter plane USS Harder found: legendary WWII submarine discovered after decades ...

and 14 of the planes were lost in combat. In the end, the Messerschmitt Me 163B may have been the fastest fighter of World War II, but it wasn't so much a rocket ship as a damp squib.