Incoming V-1

I found this great picture in 'H.E.Bates - Flying Bombs over England' (the same Darling Buds of May guy).
It's a V-1 flying over the Seven Sisters Cliffs and up the Cuckmere River Valley in Sussex.

 

A great photo with more than a little whiff of Flash Gordon about it!

 

A great photo with more than a little whiff of Flash Gordon about it!

Ming would have sent it.....


Tony LoBue's Flash Gordon Web Site...

 

I wonder if there was any connection between those and Si-Fi B movies

Great pic !

 

I wonder if there was any connection between those and Si-Fi B movies

Great pic !

Nah! The original Flash Gordon appeared in the 1930s, well before V1's were developed but...hang on...maybe that's where the design came from!

 

A super photograph and perhaps the best I have seen of a V1 over the cliffs.
I hope it was dealt with before the motor cut out!

Regards
Tom

http://www.ww2talk.com/forum/war-air/attachment.php?attachmentid=15233&d=1238083201

 

It's not just me, is it........was von Braun really a unwitting tool of Ming the Merciless?

 

Looks like a w***y to me

Or should I be PC and say phallic

 

I know, it's rubbish isn't it? Bear in mind this was made as a B movie series in the 1930's, though.....a certain naive charm, there, I think. Repeated on the Beeb in late 1960's.

 

I well remember the Saturday morning childrens cinema where Flash Gordon was on every week and it always kept you waiting for the next thrilling installment!

Oh what childhood memories!

Regards
Tom

 

Excellent photo Gage. I can only imagine what it must have felt like to hear one of those things flying over. Where's it gonna land? etc...

Great stuff.

 

I thought that "Ming the Merciless' was Commanding General of the 6th Australian Division at Tobruk ?

they have avery nice memorial of him outside a pub - where else - in Sydney !

Cheers

 

Another V-1 from ATB but this one falling to earth.
The buildings in the foreground are the Royal Courts of Justice. Most prob date for this picture is June 28th 1944 when the Peabody Buildings were struck.

 

This is a fantastic breath-taking image. A 150 Wing Tempest during the invasion period is chasing a flying bomb at low-level over Kent.

Shame I can't get a better scan. If you click on the picture and open out to full extent it looks far more impressive.

 

Top is a He111 of 2/KG53 with a V-1 under the starboard wing ready for take-off.
Middle-left is a V-1 over the sea en route for England.
Middle-right is a Spitfire tipping the wing of a V-1
Bottom is a fighter going in for the kill

Taken from Diver! Diver! Diver! by Brian Cull

 

English pilot M. Rose of Glasgow (L) showing Intelligence officer & other pilots strategy for shooting down German V1 rockets, aka robot bombs, 2 views of which he has sketched for them, June 1944.

 

These images seems more impressive joined with this sound http://www.earthstation1.com/WWIIAudio/v1_sound.wav
Note, few seconds to the end of the file, the cut off the pulsoreactor.....




Jan.

 

Marcus, to your `what must it have been like to see / hear the V-1' - to me it was marvellous stuff. At aged 7/8 in Naval School near Swanley Kent we would see the `Doodle-Bugs' flyling over day & night. Spits & Typhoons (I think) blasting away at them or tipping them over. Great cheer would go up to see them above the D-B & then to dive upon them. If the RUM-RUM-RUM of the engine went out & the `red-light' (exhaust) went out over the top of one then `some poor bugger up the road is for it' - but if the noises went out on its way to one - then back into shelter at `knots great' !! At my age great stuff. One injury sustained - in the morning I picked up a piece of shrapnel ( D-B or Ack-Ack guns positioned on Rugger pitch) and it was still hot - `ouch qouth I' - that made the other boys laugh. Later came the V-2's & then the whole school was evacuated to Honiton in Devon. Great days.
Its never mentioned much but South-East England stood the longest sustained rocket attack ever - LONDON & the S.E can take it !! And they / we did & without `flinching' !! Rule Britannia !!!!

Sadsac

 

Excellent photo Gage. I can only imagine what it must have felt like to hear one of those things flying over. Where's it gonna land? etc...

Great stuff.


Mum put my sister in the pram one morning and went out to go shopping, she got 200yards down the road and heard a dodlebug. Ok its going over no worries, engine stopping, oh s--t, she ran back to the house and hid under the kitchen table with my sister. It demolished the next block of houses, many casuaties.
Rob