The night of the V1, Dad had just come off duty and was in ... staying with relatives in Portsmouth, to escape from the buzz bombs. The people in the third house were away, but their daughter ...

These were in fact V1 bombs also known as “buzz bombs”. They had a steering system of gyros and were launched from ramps. Several were brought down by our aircraft when they attempted to flip ...

He was staunch, strong, stirring and comforting. Good old Winnie! The V1, buzz bomb or doodlebug was another horror. When the first one came over the newspapers said that our artillery had shot ...

For three days and nights, up to this week, not a single buzz-bomb (V1) or rocket bomb (V2) had fallen on Britain. Londoners felt like celebrating; this might at least be the beginning of the end ...

l The V1 ‘Buzz Bomb’ – Vergeltungswaffe 1, retaliation weapon – also colloquially known in Britain as the ‘doodle bug’, was an early pulse jet-powered example of what would later be ...