This is the story of the methods used to defeat Hitler's V1 (doodlebug) and V2 (rocket) "revenge weapons" towards the end of World War II. Even though the Germans were in retreat, these weapons ...

But luckily this was a false alarm, and in fact the last bomb to hit the town was a ‘doodlebug’ – a V1 flying bomb – that was shot down at the bottom of Wishing Tree Road on 4 August 1944.