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A new memorial marks the site of London’s Smithfield Market bombing
A memorial to a WWII attack on the Smithfield markets can be found next to a newish office block recently completed in ...
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Saddam’s Scud Missiles: The Most Inaccurate Weapons on Earth?
The original Soviet-era missiles performed poorly in accuracy tests, but Iraqi modifications made them far worse.
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Operation Backfire: Witness To The Rocket Age
4 Rocket. Seeing Wehrmacht soldiers preparing a V-2 rocket as if it was about to be sent screaming towards London at Mach 4 is bit like watching captured Islamic State fighters demonstrate the ...
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Restoring the Museum’s V-1 Missile
Like the V-2 rocket, the great majority of V-1s were fired against two cities: London and Antwerp. The cruise missile caused over 10,000 deaths in its target areas, and thousands more ...
History TV8mon
The rise and fall of Hitler’s V-weapons
On 8 September, one crashed into Chiswick, West London, causing multiple casualties. The V-2 was unlike anything seen before. It was the world’s first long-range guided ballistic missile. Powered by a ...
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Books You Should Read: V-2 By Walter Dornberger
Walter Dornberger (Bundesarchiv, Bild 146-1980-009-33 / CC-BY-SA 3.0) This is the world in which V-2, written by the head of the German rocket development program Walter Dornberger, takes place.
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V-2 Rocket Engine Turbopump cutaway
Free timed-entry passes are required for the Museum in DC. The V-2 rocket-engine turbopump drew the propellants--liquid oxygen and water alcohol--from the missile's tanks and injected them under ...
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Rocket Playground
Along with testing various types of rocket fuel, Goddard made the groundbreaking discovery ... during the war as the Germans aimed more than 1,100 destructive V-2 missiles at London. Asked about their ...