V1 (Buzz bomb) in Merton Park, London SW20. We lived at19, Springfield Avenue. Dad had won £102 on Littlewoods football pools in 1938 and bought the house with a £100 deposit.

I WAS interested in VJ Connor’s letter regarding the German doodlebug flying bombs (HAS, Mar 18). These were in fact V1 bombs also known as “buzz bombs”. They had a steering system of gyros ...

Archaeologists have excavated the exploded remains of a German V1 "flying bomb" that crashed in a forest near London in 1944.

In 1944, Nazi Germany launched the V1s against the UK. The V1 was a pilotless, jet-propelled flying bomb - the first of its kind in the world and a precursor to the modern cruise missile.