Hitlers V-Weapons: The Battle Against the V-1 and V-2 in WWII An Official History
Hitlers V-Weapons: The Battle Against the V-1 and V-2 in WWII An Official History At 04.08 hours on the morning of 13 June 1944, two members of the Royal Observer Corps were on duty at their post on…
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Hitlers V-Weapons: The Battle Against the V-1 and V-2 in WWII An Official History
At 04.08 hours on the morning of 13 June 1944, two members of the Royal Observer Corps were on duty at their post on the top of a Martello tower on the seafront at Dymchurch in Kent. It was a development that they, and many others throughout the UK, had been anticipating for months. 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'.
The two spotters on top of the tower may well have been aware that a new Battle of Britain had just begun.For years, key individuals in the UK had been aware of experiments by Germany to build long-range weapons. The first V1 flying bomb, an example of what Hitler had called his Vergeltungswaffen or Vengeance Weapons, to be released against Britain was rattling towards them. From leaked documents, reports from the French Resistance and the result of