Forty-two people died when the Nazis launched dozens of the V1 "Doodlebug" rockets at the Manchester area on Christmas Eve 1944, with bombs also landing in neighbouring Oldham and Bury.

Six people died when the V1 rocket - also known as a doodlebug - landed on Chapel Street, in Tottington, near Bury, Greater Manchester, 60 years ago. The German rocket destroyed a row of cottages and ...

Britain's first V1 attacks took place in June 1944, shortly after D-Day, when Allied armies had invaded German-occupied France. Nazi propaganda hailed the weapons as "wonder weapons" - "wundawaffe ...

The youngest victim was 18-month-old Malcolm Graham Hutton, who died in Abbey Hills Road. Six people also died when a V1 landed on Chapel Street in Tottington, near Bury.

In his family memoir he said: “I was not far away when the doodlebug exploded at Placketts Corner, and arrived before the dust settled. My father, his brother, an army officer and his driver, were ...

An unexploded V1 put on display. (Image: ) The gutteral burbling of an approaching V1 Flying Bomb – or “Doodlebug” as they were colloquially known – was a sound like nothing else.

A V1 Doodlebug flying bomb landed on the Newlands Stud between Lenham and Charing Heath, where members of the 6 Guards Tank Brigade’s Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers (REME) Workshop ...

On this day in 1944, England experienced tragedy as the very first V1 flying bomb, more commonly known as 'doodlebug', hit a house in Southampton.

Others, including the infamous Nazi V1 “Doodlebug,” were still essentially guided bombs - primitive versions of today’s cruise missiles. By the late 1950s however the US and others found they could ...