Posted on 07/22/2014 5:19:34 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson
Were those the V-1 and V-2 being called “robots”?
Bing Crosby dominated that top 10. lol
Churchill was right, it was the most horrible crime ever and socialists-communists have been trying to top it ever since.
As per Wiki: The V-1 flying bomb (German: Vergeltungswaffe 1,—also known to the Allies as the buzz bomb, or doodlebug, and in Germany as Kirschkern (cherrystone) or Maikäfer (maybug)—was an early pulse-jet-powered predecessor of the cruise missile.
The V-1 was developed at Peenemünde Army Research Centre by the German Luftwaffe during the Second World War. During initial development it was known by the codename “Cherry Stone”. The first of the so-called Vergeltungswaffen series designed for terror bombing of London, the V-1 was fired from launch sites along the French (Pas-de-Calais) and Dutch coasts. The first V-1 was launched at London on 13 June 1944[6]), one week after (and prompted by) the successful Allied landing in Europe. At its peak, more than one hundred V-1s a day were fired at south-east England, 9,521 in total, decreasing in number as sites were overrun until October 1944, when the last V-1 site in range of Britain was overrun by Allied forces.
After this, the V-1s were directed at the port of Antwerp and other targets in Belgium, with 2,448 V-1s being launched. The attacks stopped when the last launch site was overrun on 29 March 1945.
The V-2 (German: Vergeltungswaffe 2, “Vengeance Weapon 2”), technical name Aggregat-4 (A4), was the world’s first long-range ballistic missile. The liquid-propellant rocket was developed during the Second World War in Germany as a “vengeance weapon”, designed to attack Allied cities as a form of retaliation for the ever-increasing Allied bomber effort against German cities. The V-2 rocket was also the first man-made object to enter the fringes of space.
Beginning in September 1944, over 3,000 V-2s were launched by the German Wehrmacht against Allied targets during the war, mostly London and later Antwerp and Liège.
I was just wondering if the “robots” the article referred to were those.
Posting the description was my way of saying yes, they are the V-1 bombs.
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