Stepney, Poplar and West Ham were particularly hard hit.

However, later in the war, the Germans developed new technologies and created the V1 and V2 rockets or flying bombs. Apparently it took 2 days to find his body and it was American soldiers who recovered him.Hi Diane thank you very much for that piece of information, i think that i was told by my aunt that American soldiers got my Dad out as well, she also told me that my uncle was apparently sitting on a windowsill when it hit, would really like to find out some more info, a newspaper report or something, i have been looking but cant find anythingI’ve looked on the British Newspaper Archive and sadly I can’t find anything on there.

He was either at Tilbury or one of the two London Docks used for this purpose. Another ambulance had to be called.I worked in America for several years as an Aero/Space engineer. By 1934, von Braun and Dornberger had a team of 80 engineers in place, building rockets in Kummersdorf, about 60 miles south of Berlin. On both the 26th and 29th the maximum temperatures were only minus 0.8°C. Passersby were as dazed as I was, and some of them were badly cut.Help came from some American soldiers, who soon got busy helping us all. The rocket hit the railway bridge on the road and destroyed it. We'll assume you're ok with this, but you can opt-out if you wish. Artillery captain  I looked into the shop and saw that everyone was lying flat on the floor – no noise – then the explosion came and pandemonium broke out.

Rescue workers went back to check and found Joe under a door which was leaning against a wall, with rubble on top. I was dumped into the middle of the street in my pyjamas and bare feet unable to move because of all the broken glass.i think the people killed were the family of ‘chick’ clark.Approx six weeks later, a V1 or a V2 caused big damage in Swaton and Chilton road, approx 250meters from Fern Street hitdoes anyone have knowledge of a v1 /v2 that hit knapp rd bromley-by-bow?my parents house was in fact 102 knapp road, which i think was next to the school. This meant that people could hear it coming and then know that it was about to strike close by when its engines went silent. (The psychological effect of the V-2 was considerable, as the V-2, travelling faster than the With the war all but lost, regardless of the factory output of conventional weapons, the Nazis resorted to V-weapons as a tenuous last hope to influence the war militarily (hence Antwerp as V-2 target), as an extension of their desire to "punish" their foes and most importantly to give hope to their supporters with their A submarine-towed launch platform was tested successfully, making it the prototype for According to decrypted messages from the Japanese embassy in Germany, twelve dismantled V-2 rockets were shipped to Japan.At the end of the war, a race began between the United States and the In addition to V-2 hardware, the U.S. Government delivered German mechanization equations for the V-2 guidance, navigation, and control systems, as well as for advanced development concept vehicles, to U.S. defence contractors for analysis. The German military was searching for a weapon at the time that would not violate the Versailles Treaty of World War I but would defend its country. In the early years of the Second World War, bombing raids tended to use traditional bombs and incendiary devices. It killed a woman and her two young sons and severely damaged the school.

One of the first V1s launched on the city caused the first civilian casualties from a V1 in Bethnal Green. Von Braun worked on the project through the spring and summer of 1932 only to have the rocket fail when it was tested by the military. And many strikes in the East End of London are missing due to lack of concrete information. They would quickly enter the bombed out shops, factories and houses with hammers and what may have been chisels and screwdrivers. She did find me later, but my grandmother, who lived in Holly Street, was missing. “… also with some stories from 1945 (75 years ago) until September … In December, Speer ordered Major Thom and Dr. Steinhoff to reconnoiter the site near Watten. TilburyI remember the V1 that landed in Grove Road. OrHi Pat, I lived in Antill Road and my Dad went down to this incident as he was a Fireman.I got all the what was secret papers out of this crash when I visited Kew Records office some years ago.I visited the street where the first V2 launched on the UK in Holland.Also went to a Memorial Sevice in Poland for Operation Wildhorn 3 the RAF DC3 that brought back bits of a V2 to England.Looking for further information on a V2 bomb that fell in Poplar on 24th November 1944. Fifteen V2 rockets are known to have been fired at England on 4th January 1945.