Posted on 06/22/2017 6:32:10 AM PDT by C19fan
An incredibly rare Kamikaze version of Adolf Hitler's deadly V1 terror weapon is about to go on display at a British museum 47 years after it was saved from the scrapheap - and restored in Germany. The piloted Doodlebug was effectively a suicide bomb packed with one ton of explosives in its nose. Towards the end of the Second World War, some 5,000 V1 rockets, the world's first cruise missile, were launched by the Germans to bomb London, causing massive loss of life.
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The environmental cost meanwhile, enormous. Poking holes in the ozone....and THAT is what really gave Hitler a bad name. Truly the first MODERN eco terrorist. Shame on him...
The Nazis had lots of interesting stuff.
They determined that trading a Focke Wulf 190 for a bomber and its crew was acceptable and organized ‘ramming squadrons.’ The rammers’ aircraft were heavily armored; they were supposed ram tails and wings, bringing down the bomber and having a chance of the Focke Wulf surviving. If the fighter was disabled, the pilot was supposed to bail out.
But, for some reason, this practice never became very popular.
Hitler was “genius”,who conned tens of millions into believing they could just take what they wanted from the rest of the world.Kinda like today’s Democrats...
Is it really a V-1 or a USN JB-2 LOON?
(The He-162 had a similar engine location, but the pilot was sitting on a an ejection seat)
Pungo Museum is huge. You could spend the entire day there and not cover everything.
W.E.B. Griffin's "Men at War" series is also very good, and follows the recruitment, training and operational careers of OSS operatives during WWII. It too is fiction, but is very heavily laced with factual material regarding actual clandestine ops with hypothetical cameos by persons who were in the IC/Psyops in WWII (i.e. Ian Fleming, David Niven, Peter Ustinov etc.)
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