{"id":6130,"date":"2016-09-09T18:33:41","date_gmt":"2016-09-10T00:33:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/?p=6130"},"modified":"2016-09-09T18:33:41","modified_gmt":"2016-09-10T00:33:41","slug":"this-week-in-the-war-4-10-sept-1944-first-v-2-rockets-are-launched","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/?p=6130","title":{"rendered":"This week in the War, 4–10 Sept 1944: First V-2 rockets are launched"},"content":{"rendered":"

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V2 rocket in flight [Public domain]<\/p><\/div>This week in the war saw the first V-2 rockets launched against Paris and London and, soon after, Antwerp.<\/p>\n

Unlike the much slower V-1 flying \u2018bombs,\u2019<\/a> which\u00a0RAF Spitfires could sometimes chase and shoot down, the liquid-oxygen powered V-2\u00a0was capable of\u00a0exceeding the sound barrier and was essentially unstoppable once it had been launched. Both V-weapons were developed at the German Army Research\u00a0Centre at Peenem\u00fcnde<\/a> on the Baltic Sea.<\/p>\n

Before the war was to end, V-2s were to hit London (over 1,300), Antwerp and its important port facilities (over 1,600), Paris (over 20), and various other cities in Europe, including Remagen in Germany, after the Allies had seized an important\u00a0bridge there across the Rhine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This week in the war saw the first V-2 rockets launched against Paris and London and, soon after, Antwerp. Unlike the much slower V-1 flying \u2018bombs,\u2019 which\u00a0RAF Spitfires could sometimes chase and shoot down, the liquid-oxygen powered V-2\u00a0was capable of\u00a0exceeding … 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":[909,910,911,912,913],"class_list":["post-6130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world-war-ii","tag-peenemunde","tag-v-1","tag-v-2","tag-v1","tag-v2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6130","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=6130"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6132,"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6130\/revisions\/6132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondbysecondworldwar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}