V-1 Flying Bomb Facilities

V-1 Flying Bomb, Fieseler Fi 103R, History of the Luftwaffe (1933 1945), Heinkel He 111, Operation Crossbow
Herausgegeben:Dee Kord, Erwin

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Produktbeschreibung

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. In order to carry out the planned V-1 "flying bomb" attacks on the United Kingdom, Germany built a number of military installations including launching sites and depots. Some of the installations were huge concrete fortifications.The Allies became aware of the sites at an early stage and carried out numerous bombing raids to destroy them before the came into use.The unpiloted aircraft was assembled at the KdF-Stadt Volkswagenwerke (described as "the largest pressed-steel works in Germany") near Fallersleben, at Cham/Bruns Werke, and at the Mittelwerk. underground factory in central Germany. Production plants to modify several hundred standard V-1s to Reichenberg R-III manned aircraft were in the woods of Dannenburg and at Pulverhof, with air-launch trials at Lärz and Rechlin. Flight testing was performed by the Luftwaffe at Peenemünde West and, after theAugust 1943 Operation Hydra bombing, at Brüsterort.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Alphascript Publishing / Solv
• Aufl.
• Seitenzahl: 108
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 220mm
• ISBN-13: 9786139241491
• ISBN-10: 6139241499
• Artikelnr.: 35175263