Hitler's V-Weapons: The Battle Against the V-1 and V-2 Written at the Time, An Official History

A history of Germany's attempts to construct flying bombs during World War II and how to threat was handled by the Allies.

At 04.08 hours on the morning of June 13, 1944, two members of the Royal Observer Corps were on duty on the top of a Martello tower on the seafront at Dymchurch in Kent. At that moment, they spotted the approach of an object spurting red flames from its rear and making a noise like "a Model-T-Ford going up a hill." It was a development that they, and many others through...