A village in Hampshire is remembering the moment a German V-1 rocket killed six people there ... The V-1 was an unmanned flying bomb, using an internal gyroscope navigation system that could ...

The Germans developed two types of retaliation weapon (called Vergeltungswaffen in German): the V-1 flying bomb (actually a small aircraft, but without a pilot); and the V-2, a rocket. These were ...

By June 1944, he had already achieved a number of successes in the air against enemy aircraft when the Germans opened their campaign against London by launching the V-1 rocket-propelled flying bomb.