Britain's first V1 attacks took place in June 1944, shortly after D-Day, when Allied armies had invaded German-occupied France. Nazi propaganda hailed the weapons as "wonder weapons" - "wundawaffe ...

First is MR N Goody, from Surrey Grove, Sutton. He has confirmed the bombing took place but says the rocket might not have been a V1. In response to John Goose's request for information on the ...

The Fi 103R Reichenberg was a chilling product of Nazi desperation—a manned version of the V1 missile designed to be flown by suicide pilots. Based on crude modifications, it was launched from a ...

In the distance a V1 could be seen and heard approaching the coast. At the same time I heard a aircraft pass over going towards the V1, the aircraft was a R A F Hawker Typhoon fighter.

Sheffield's Moor area in the aftermath of the blitz of 1940. The V1 and V2 rockets were Hitler’s so-called "wonder weapons", designed to spread fear even as the Nazi war machine collapsed.

Another of the rockets hit Davenport Golf Club in Stockport, destroying two homes, creating an 18ft (5.5m) crater and killing one resident, while another person died in Worsley.

Six people were also killed when a V1 rocket hit Chapel Street in Tottington, near Bury Richard Stead BBC News, Manchester ...