THE HOLLINGTON V1 DOODLEBUG 16th July 1944. It was the afternoon of Sunday 16th July 1944. Our pet canary had been making a strange warning call all day.

A woman who survived a notorious flying bomb attack during World War Two has celebrated her 103rd birthday. Forty-two people died when the Nazis launched dozens of the V1 "Doodlebug" rockets at ...

The V1 came over - a doodlebug - we could hear it although we used to get quite blasé about hearing them, because providing you could hear them you were safe - it was when the engine stopped you ...

The V1 rocket was the world’s first cruise missile causing massive loss of life. The flying bomb was also known as the Buzz Bomb or Doodlebug and was developed at Peenemünde Airfield by the ...

The V1 rocket was the world's first cruise missile causing massive loss of life. The flying bomb was also known as the Buzz Bomb or Doodlebug and was developed at Peenemünde Airfield by the ...

Nicknamed doodlebug or buzz bomb by the British, the V1 missile was a pilotless aeroplane made of plywood and sheet steel, powered by a primitive jet engine and packed with about 1,000 lbs of high ...

The gutteral burbling of an approaching V1 Flying Bomb – or “Doodlebug” as they were colloquially known – was a sound like nothing else. Once heard in that summer of 1944, it was never ...

THE HOLLINGTON V1 DOODLEBUG 16th July 1944. It was the afternoon of Sunday 16th July 1944. Our pet canary had been making a strange warning call all day. I was five and a half years old, and my ...

The V1 came over - a doodlebug - we could hear it although we used to get quite blasé about hearing them, because providing you could hear them you were safe - it was when the engine stopped you ...