{"id":6058,"date":"2016-06-15T20:17:13","date_gmt":"2016-06-16T02:17:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/?p=6058"},"modified":"2016-06-15T20:17:13","modified_gmt":"2016-06-16T02:17:13","slug":"this-week-in-the-war-12-18-june-1944-v-1-flying-bombs-launched-against-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/?p=6058","title":{"rendered":"This week in the War, 12–18 June 1944: V-1 flying bombs launched against London"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"V-1<\/a>

V-1 flying bomb over London, 1944 [Public domain]<\/p><\/div>One of Hitler’s secret weapons, the jet-propelled V-1 \u2018flying bomb,\u2019 which also went by the name of doodlebug or buzz-bomb (because of the sound it made), had been developed\u00a0in the Germany Army Research Centre at Peenem\u00fcnde<\/a> on Germany’s Baltic coast.<\/p>\n

This week in the war, on 13 June 1944, the first V-1s were launched against London from launching pads on the French coast. The \u2018V\u2019 stood for Vergeltung<\/em>, meaning \u2018reprisal.\u2019<\/p>\n

Ten V-1s were launched that day but only four of them reached Britain and only one of the four reached London. Six Londoners were killed.<\/p>\n

\"Cutaway<\/a>

Cutaway of V-1 flying bomb [Public domain]<\/p><\/div>The range of a V-1 was over 150 miles and the warhead contained over 1,800 pounds of explosive. The speed was around 400mph—faster than almost any aircraft of the day. Over 8,000 V-1s were launched during the course of the war.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One of Hitler’s secret weapons, the jet-propelled V-1 \u2018flying bomb,\u2019 which also went by the name of doodlebug or buzz-bomb (because of the sound it made), had been developed\u00a0in the Germany Army Research Centre at Peenem\u00fcnde on Germany’s Baltic coast. … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[993,992,909,910],"class_list":["post-6058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world-war-ii","tag-buzz-bomb","tag-flying-bomb","tag-peenemunde","tag-v-1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6058"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6058\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6061,"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6058\/revisions\/6061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}