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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.

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

Archaeologists have excavated the exploded remains of a German V1 "flying bomb" that crashed in a forest near London in 1944. ... the first V2 rockets started to fall." World War II archaeology.

With my sister Pat, I was a witness to one of the first German V2 rocket attacks on London and, with it, one of the many small miracles of WW2. In the autumn of 1944, as a boy of nine, I used to ...

The Germans primarily painted spirals on the nosecones of the Messerschmitt Bf 109 and the Focke-Wulf Fw 190, two of the best German fighter planes of WW2.The spirals worked well to promote safety.

Dubbed the 'people's missile', the Trembita uses the same technology as the German V1 flying bombs, or Doodlebugs, used in WWII. They could have twice the range of US-made missiles.

Allied intelligence confirmed that Nazi Germany was developing “vengeance” weapons, including the V-2 long-range rocket, at Peenemünde on the Baltic Sea.

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Unveiling the shadowy inspirations behind Ian Fleming's iconic villains, German Bond enthusiasts believe they've uncovered ...