A German V1 Flying Bomb crew prepares for a launch against Allied ... Shooting down a missile packed with TNT and ammonium nitrate usually meant that pilots had to get uncomfortably close ...

John “Jack” Addie Forrest OstJ, Spitfire pilot and engineer. Born: 13 April, 1921 in Airdrie. Died: 27 February, 2023, in Aberdeen, aged 101.

Fewer and fewer flying bombs were being ground launched against Southern England due to the allied advances, and the capture of the V1 launch sites in the Pas-de-Calais area, this gave the Manston ...

The V1 Flying Bomb, as it became known, ... We need to understand what happened in Peenemünde, at the Army research base where they were shooting these early missiles off.

Fighter planes were shooting at the flying bombs, ... It is believed to be the first V1 flying bomb to have been recovered intact, but I cannot vouch for that.

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.

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.

Flying Bomb- V1 Bomb Damage in London, England, UK, 1944 . Image: public domain. As the realisation sank in that we were safe, our minds began to function again, and we started to chatter ...

No record of the Flying Bomb that Joseph destroyed on that night appears in this log, but, in the Squadrons 'Operations Record Book' dated the 20th of August 1944 two entries show, flying Mosquito ...