The Yorkshire city devastated by German bombs during WW2. ... On Christmas Eve 1944, the city was also the victim of a V1 rocket attack. These were some of the first cruise missiles built and one hit ...

Such rockets could travel at speeds of up to 3,300 miles per hour. “The rockets would enter the earth at an angle, in this case a trajectory of about 70 degrees,” Colin Welch said.

The characteristic low growl of a German V-1 missile terrified people across England and Belgium. Here's what made their sound so unsettling.

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.

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A woman who survived a notorious flying bomb attack during World War Two has celebrated her 103rd birthday. Forty-two people died when the Nazis launched dozens of the V1 "Doodlebug" rockets at ...