On 13 June 1944, the first V-1 flying bombs, launched within Operation Eisbär (Polar Bear), reached England. The German flying bomb, at first known as the Fieseler Fi 103 but then officially designated Vergeltungswaffe 1 […]
The German flying bomb, initially known as the Fieseler Fi 103 but then officially designated Vergeltungswaffe 1 (Vengeance Weapon No. 1), was developed in the early 1942 by Fritz Gosslau and Robert Lusser, who at […]
Fieseler Fi 103 (also known as Vergeltungswaffe 1 / V-1) flying bomb, exhibited at Deutsches Museum in Munich, October 2012. The idea of an unmanned aircraft able to strike on remote targets is virtually as […]
Death of F/Sgt Ingvar Fredrik Håkansson, Swedish volunteer pilot in the Royal Air Force. Håkansson was born in the United Kingdom, in a mixed family of British mother and Swedish father (who was a navy […]
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