V1 Flying Bomb Ski Site – Launch and Storage Facility – Bois des Huit-Rues, Le Nieppe, France
The V1 launch location was set up in the Bois des Huit-Rues (Eng. Huit-Rues forest) just north of …
German Vengance Weapons
All articlesOur set of WW2 articles on the German Vengeance weapons, or Vergeltungswaffen in German. These reprisal weapons were state of the art weaponry, newly developed and used for the first time ever during World War Two, These were the V-1 Cruise Missile, the V-2 Rocket, the V-3 High Pressure Cannon and the Lesser known V-4 Rheinbote – an unguided high altitude rocket. The original designation is written in German without the dash, V1 and V2 and the name Vengeance weapons not was used until propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels started to rename these weapons, for example the A4 Aggregate turned into Vergeltungswaffe number 2 or V2 (Eng. V-2). These weapons are also referred to as Wunderwaffen or Wonder Weapons.
