The V-1 Flying Bomb: The Nazi Cruise Missile

The newest video in our ongoing investigation series into why Adolf was so obsessed with putting the letter V in front of the names of his scariest murder toys.
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[@grapeshot]

My grandfather was in an anti-aircraft Battalion in the US Army during World War II and he told me about shooting down V1s. But of course the V2 broke the sound barrier so there were no way to intercept them.

[@WatcherMovie008]

It wasn't that the V-2 broke the sound barrier, but rather the V-2 flew way high up into the stratosphere that by the time you could see the V-2, gravity is already doing it job and the V-2 is coming down to Earth like an asteroid hell bent on crash landing wherever the hell it decides to land.

[@FIRE_STORMFOX-3692]

@@WatcherMovie008 also you can't fly certain craft at such altitude. The air is too thin and the rocket therefore accelerates the higher it goes because there's less air in front of it, It's exponential acceleration. The only way to destroy it is to do it so at launch or while taking off since it's when it's more vulnerable and slow

[@nemosis9449]

As a 62 year old Londoner whose mum aged 21 lived worked and survived thru the Blitz less than 1 mile from St Paul's Cathedral and also when the buzz bombs started coming over i would like to thank your grandfather for his service to protect my mum. Respect. From London.

[@springbok4015]

Fortunately the V2’s were often poorly built by forced labor.

[@grapeshot]

@@WatcherMovie008 yeah my grandfather told me about a V2 rocket they hit a movie theater in Antwerp. Killed over 500 people.

[@mr606neil]

I lived in Sutton Surrey during WW2 and was 13yo in 1944. As a paper boy I saw and heard many V1s during my early morning paper rounds. Fortunately I was evacuated with my school when a flying bomb struck a house 3 doors down from my home causing extensive damage and because it was a Saturday, my parents were at our shack in Sussex so were spared. Since 1952 I have lived in Queensland, Australia but the memories are as clear as is yesterday.

[@euangallagher7545]

Couldn’t imagine what that would’ve been like to experience for the first time as a kid.

[@Etj1013]

Would you mind if I ask questions about your experiences?

[@UntakenNick]

Let the _"my grandfather was.."_ comments begin!

[@WKRP187]

Having a Grandfather that was in WW2 but unfortunately never got to meet I love reading others stories from the front lines etc during WW2!!

[@UntakenNick]

@@WKRP187 Exactly, they were all in the front line, or were close buddies with Hitler or were in the same room while the Normandy landing was being planned.

[@hassanbenzim7681]

My grandfather was a farmer in morocco😂 can i be part of the my grandather was too

[@UntakenNick]

@@alexander-mauricemillamlae4567 So did my grand grandfather, we have an alpine soldier helmet and some nazi office items. But that's my point, every single physically capable man was drafted, so of course anyone of European descent is going to have some story to tell that will most likely be similar to those of everyone else, mixed with all kinds of inexactitudes, exaggerations or plain lies.

[@WKRP187]

@@hassanbenzim7681 .... Nope unless he was fighting the Nazi's with his ho and bombing them with fertilizer bombs your not in the club😁

[@makeracistsafraidagain]

The technical details are particularly interesting.

[@elliottprice6084]

Love this channel. An idea for a future video? The North American P47 Thunderbolt. The heaviest single engined aircraft of WW2. 10 tonnes of attitude 😁

[@williamwingo8952]

In 1945, as the U.S. prepared for the dreaded invasion of Japan, they considered using an American variant of the V-1 in that effort; but it turned out not to be necessary. The V-1 design was later developed into some of the "cold war" missiles including the Matador and Mace. Hitler also ordered V-2's to be used to destroy the Rhein bridge at Remagen after it was captured intact; but they weren't accurate enough; and the bridge eventually collapsed by itself.

[@AlexMarciniszyn-y1k]

Nonsense. That is an unsubstantiated bit of nonsense. V-2 accuracy had improved by that point. Bridges do not collapse for no reason.

[@hagalazmultiverze3411]

The Azimuth and direction of an air vehicle are not the same. The Azimuth is the direction of the airframe, whereas the direction is the direction, the vehicle is moving (as a result of the Azimuth and external forces such as cross wind)

[@robertkerr4199]

Pulsejets are awesome, and stupidly simple to build. Everyone should build a pulsejet, just because...

[@SuperExponential]

Why did you show Soviet aircraft(Il-2 Shturmovik ground attack) when talking about the RAF fighter defense against the V-1s? Do you need, like, a person or something to help with those things?$☺

[@seanraymond9529]

Music playing at 12:07?

[@celsetialarchives5909]

I'd love him to do a video on the v2 I can't find one so I'm assuming it's not been made

[@stevemueller6037]

I never knew the V1 had a rudimentary guidance system that’s fascinating. I think the RC-135 would be interesting as a future project.

[@AlexMarciniszyn-y1k]

An early V-1 was fitted with a radio and trailing antenna wire. In a test firing, the total travel distance was calculated. In production V-1s, an internal counter would record each mile traveled like an odometer. Once it hit the final mile, it would command the wing flaps to go up, sending it downward, and cutting fuel to the engine.

[@hoodoo2001]

The V-1 was no superweapon. It was just that the Germans chose to use them. The allies could have built them had they wanted them but they have a much better delivery system. . The US started copying the V-1 but with much better guidance. They could have been useful in conjunction with heavy bombers and naval preliminary bombardments of the japanese islands.

[@hanzup4117]

I was thinking about the V-1 and V-2 earlier today. Fun fact: The V-2 was the first man-made object into space.

[@johnkonieczny728]

the space race began with the launch of the Soviet satellite Sputnik - the first man-made object to orbit the Earth.

[@hanzup4117]

@@johnkonieczny728 Check out Mark Felton Productions on the subject :)

[@robertkerr4199]

Everything thing man-made has always been in space... Everything is in space.. the V2 is the first man-made object to leave the atmosphere. The idea that Earth is somehow separate from space needs to be removed from the human psyche.

[@Crashed131963]

Fun Facts . The V1 had almost the same payload as the V2, 1,800lbs vs 2000lbs. The V1 had almost the range of the V2 , 250 km vs 300 km .

[@randomveezerr2582]

Wait. Was it not the first man-made object went to space is some Nazi Super gun. Idk which one tho

[@coreymcconnell1908]

It's a shame you didn't include the sound of one of the bombs. Its truly an eerie sound. I believe they were also called buzz bombs because of the sound of the pulse jet running.

[@laurencemcguigan2225]

Doodle bug

[@tknispel]

We need a Biographics on Wernher Von Braun!

[@jacobzimmermann59]

Here's an interesting megaproject: the Chamonix-Ailguille Du Midi-Helbronner-Courmayer cableway.

[@jessicaevans7847]

You just want to hear Simon say that over and over again

[@staggertobed]

The terror of these things was amplified by the sound they made.. and then the lack of sound. You would hear it coming in overhead like a loud buzzing from the engine.. but then.. the engine would stop.. and there would be silence... until the explosion. Imagine hearing it.. and then suddenly NOT hearing it. Were you seconds from dying? Terrifying.

[@rogerlucy8817]

My Mother who lived in London through the War said she found the V-1s much more frightenting thn the V-2s. As the V-2 flew faster than sound, it had already hit before you even heard them coming. With the V-1 you heard the pulse jet as it approached, and then when it cut out, you knew it was probably going to land somewhere nearby. Also because the V-1s glided i,n they tended to do a lot more surface damage then V-2s which made a large hole in the ground before detronating.

[@tylerkinley268]

The first acts of terrorism by a modern country?

[@paulhaynes8045]

I'm only here because of the randomness of the V1's 'targetting'. My mother, then 8, had just returned to her south London home after being evacuated to Yorkshire for several years, when a V1 hit the house opposite. Had it landed just a second earlier, I woudn't be sitting here, 77 years later, posting this. For most of my life I never knew if this story was true, as in the post-war world I grew up in, almost everyone had their V1/V2 story. But when preparing my speech for my mum's funeral a year or so ago, I happened across the address of her childhood home (I had visited this as a child, but never known exactly where it was). I looked it up on Google maps and when I switched to Street View, sure enough, in a road of entirely Edwardian semis, there was one 50s bungalow - immediately opposite my mum's old house.

[@EdMcF1]

1:30 'The V-1 is often referred to as a revenge weapon'.. Yes, because it was, a 'Vergeltungswaffe' a 'revenge weapon' , that was its blasted name!

[@MegaAndroyd]

For me, my grandfather's few stories were about fighting afar. He was in the desert. Both of my grandmother's stories were about being bombed in London and the sound of the V1s coming. As her house was bombed, my grandmother was hiding under the kitchen table clutching my uncle, who was a baby at the time. Both of them survived. I remember my other grandmother hated being around balloons, she was done hearing loud bangs.

[@johnbockelie3899]

The Vengeance one, and the rocket was the Vengeance two. "V" weapons.

[@josso1]

That's interesting my grandfather was in the desert rats, iirc I recall my grandmother saying the noise was't so scary of the V-1s it was when they stopped and you didn't know where they were going to land.

[@joeeeehh2943]

@josso my great grandfather was a desert rat also

[@StYxXx]

My gandmother couldn't stand new year's fireworks since it reminded here of the war

[@thegunslinger1363]

And years later. Wernher Von Braun would play a pivotal role. In the NASA space programme.

[@kevinhoffman6592]

Von Braun was more affiliated with V 2

[@kevinhoffman6592]

@@alexander-mauricemillamlae4567 i know i watched him on the tv when i was a kid seeing man landing on the moon . so glad he came to the US instead of Russia.

[@Therealromario1]

Using the metric system. In your face USA 🔥

[@zulucain]

And years later sheperd selling oil at wrong price to wrong folk would get the same ;-)

[@zsoltsandor3814]

The Americans took von Braun, the Soviets took the blueprints.

[@TDCFire]

There are some giant elevators for ships around the world like the "Schiffshebewerk Scharnebeck" in northern Germany. They probably would make a nice video

[@Mik1604]

No doubt that was 'operation eisbär' (polar bear). And please stop gloating about how bad you are at pronouncing German instead of making the tiny bit of effort and get it right.

[@jshicke]

Simon, today I learned about the Spanish submarine "Peral". This would make a great future video. The Submarine , or Submerged Torpedo boat, was built in 1888 and was a first in many areas of submarine design, influencing submarine evolution.

[@Dutch1961]

I didn't know the Ilyushin Il2 Shturmovik was used in the fight against V-1's? (12:57)

[@stephenle-surf9893]

You got that to? God knows it's the only thing they didn't throw at the Russians.

[@schimmelnewkirk]

I spotted that too

[@EllieMaes-Grandad]

It's not as though they're short of library images of Spitfires etc. . . . !

[@marckyle5895]

@@EllieMaes-Grandad or Tempests, Typhoons, Spits, Thunderbolts and Mustangs.

[@ericstromberg9608]

@@marckyle5895 Gloster Meteors...

[@SupremeLeaderKimJong-un]

I am the missile whisperer we're the only ones that create missiles the right way

[@IshijimaKairo]

any suggestions to make a nuke in a garage? (for school)

[@harryconover289]

Sit on one and lit it

[@rredeyee2460]

Thank you Supreme Leader for all the knowledge you have bestowed upon us!

[@ignitionfrn2223]

1:00 - Chapter 1 - Revenge is in the air 2:10 - Chapter 2 - Development 4:50 - Chapter 3 - The V1 8:25 - Chapter 4 - Warhead 9:30 - Chapter 5 - Launch 10:40 - Chapter 6 - In operation 11:40 - Chapter 7 - Countermeasures 13:50 - Chapter 8 - V1

[@stefanmilosevic8899]

Thanks!

[@thomasdarby6084]

I remember, as a young boy living in Northern California in the early 60's, talking to a neighbor who had been an RAF fighter pilot in the war. He referred to the V1 as a "buzz bomb" because of it's peculiar sound. He gave me a plastic model kit of the thing, which I kept until I was married several years later. I still remember his voice, describing the terror that people felt as Germany was still trying to destroy them.

[@codysmith7755]

Just want to say your thumbnail pictures only get worse and less appealing

[@wilberator9608]

20 seconds before the explosion: "The nazis have got flying motorbikes!"

[@jshicke]

It was Hagrid, from Hogwarts, flying in to collect Harry Potter.

[@888johnmac]

future project .. Dr Evil's hollowed out volcano lair ( not being serious , commenting for the algorithm )

[@amaccama3267]

Let's not forget Hitler's ultimate revenge weapon. The Volkswagen Group.

[@Splattle101]

At 12.56 you say aircraft also shot down V1s, and you show a nice shot of a formation of IL-2 Sturmovik ground attack aircraft of the VVS. Long way from home weren't they?

[@Dakkss]

My Nan saw one of these destroy a house in her street. She was just a kid at the time.

[@tedsmith6137]

The catapult was not to get the V1 up ''to a speed where the Pulse Jet could operate" as the pulse jet was running before the catapult was activated. Pulse jets will run at zero forward speed. A Ram Jet, on the other hand, must be moving at around 300 MPH to operate.

[@noahwail2444]

Yes, the catapult was for the wings to get enough speed to make lift.

[@Mrgunsngear]

Thanks

[@davidritchie9344]

Good to see ya here!

[@stevedownes5439]

Have you done a video on the Proximity Fuse? Might be too small for a Mega Project video, but might be too big for a Side Project video. Very interesting history behind it, when it was first used and WHERE it wasn't used until later in WW2.

[@robthegardener9631]

Curious Droid did a video about the proximity fuse

[@jetsons101]

Between the V-1, V-2 and the A-bomb it's amazing that such projects could be done with such minimal technology in electronics and metallurgy . Another fine video.

[@Kirovets7011]

Hello Simon, In this video, you're telling at some moment that the 'trick' with 'flipping over' the V-1 was just "Mythical". However, this is wrong. Spitfire pilots DID this flip over many times! Sorry that i have to correct you. The rest of this video is GOOD!!!👍👍👍👍

[@steveh1792]

Long before the V1 there was the Kettering Bug, intended to be an "aerial torpedo", first flight October 1918. It sometimes worked, if 'way too late for WW1.

[@sandhilltucker]

Could we have one about munition guidance like the Fritz-x all the way to modern day munitions.

[@Bacopa68]

This has to include BF Skinner's pigeon missile. The Pacific War Museum in Fredericksburg TX has a non-pigeon version of this experimental WWII weapon. It looks like a little version of a V-1 and was intended to be dropped from a medium bomber on an external mount to be a one shot kill against a ship.

[@hernerweisenberg7052]

@@Bacopa68 Haha i was thinking the same! American animal weapon are so quirky, like the bat-bomb ;D

[@cbadcruiser]

You have to do the X-15! Fastest manned aircraft. Was used to test reentry heating effects for space capsules.

[@kristinagraversgaard5328]

I mean, technically the fastest manned aircraft was the Space Shuttle Colombia during reentry (specifically the STS-2 mission)

[@TheRealAaronSmith]

@@kristinagraversgaard5328 technically, sure, but the records are set for powered flights, not reentry.

[@anthonymcdonnell6615]

the v1 was also launched from bombers over the north sea targeting the north west uk as well

[@RealNeutronStar]

The coronavirus vaccination mega-project is certainly the largest in the world.

[@raykewin3608]

There is a plan to link some of the Shetland islands with undersea tunnels. The Faeroe islands already have 3. A plan to link north Atlantic islands with undersea tunnels has to be a Megaproject, right ?

[@dodoubleg2356]

How about a sequel...a Mega Projects vid on the V2?? Enjoyed the vid as always. 😉👍👍✌️

[@normanhumphrey9695]

That was a good one, thank you. Wondered if you might be able to do a show on the big grain elevators that grew and grew from small wooden units to giant concrete elevators dotting the US and Canadian country sides. These provided the storage and loading of grains into rail cars by the hundreds. Thanks, Norm. Calgary Alberta, Canada

[@theblackhand6485]

First V1 launched from an airplane was from an Heinkel 111. Not a Condor.

[@orange70383]

Just think, you're sitting in your home and here the tell-tale sound of a V-1, then the sound suddenly stops which tells you the thing is on it's way down in your area.

[@comments.are.turned.off...]

My grandmother was in London during The Blitz. She used to tell me stories of when she and her girlfriend were working late nights cleaning an old theatre. She said you would hear the sirens and all the city lights would go out, then would come the sound of the V-1. She said hearing it was always OK. In fact you prefererred it because you knew where it was an could hear it fly over. She said the most terrifying moment if you were caught out on the street was when the V-1 engines cut off. Complete silence. She said that was when you would just crouch there not knowing where it would drop. The silence was absolutely gutwretchingly terrifying. Then BOOM!! Apparently, when the engines cut, the V-1 would start a steep incline to the ground, so if you heard it cut off above you, you were safe, But if you heard it cut off a bit aways from you, you were an immediate possible target, They used to pray to hear it stop above them. She said this would happen while on the buses too, where all the lights on the buses were off so it wouldn't attract attention and then you'd hear the whistling of the V-1 through the air for just a few seconds before it impacted nearby. Just going to work each night was a terrifying cat and mouse with death. She was just 17 years old. Just remember that when you are complaining about your life. Those who came before us living through hell on earth to give us what we have today. LEST WE FORGET.

[@JSp4wN]

Thanks for sharing this story with us random people on the internet. I wish I could talk to the ones whom lived through it. I hope we never forget our history (again), it'd be absolutely devastating to our species. Even though this is very tragic and evil time we've still learned extremely valuable lessons from it. Cheers friend. 🤝

[@sarahcook8725]

Amen, I would love to have know. Anyone back then to hear all the stories about how they survived

[@ballbag6031]

What Hitler seemed to forget tryimg to break the will of the English people is that misery is the English way

[@JuanONo-cl2jt]

You should do a video on La Línea in Colombia. It is the longest tunnel in Latin America at 8.65 km long through the Andes mountains in Colombia. It took around 14 years to build. It would definitely count as a mega project and I would love to see some videos on projects in South America.

[@Jason-er1vf]

I actually have a fragment of a V-1 Rocket that hit London near Bushy Park. My grandpa, who was part of the U.S. 234th Military Police, was pretty close by when it hit, and he took the fragment as a souvenir.

[@gavinjoth5347]

An old V-1 launch site is featured prominently in the movie Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, where the eccentric professor tries to use it to make himself a human flying rocket at the start of the movie.

[@WindThrusters]

15.27 - They used Russian Sturmoviks to intecept V1'S !

[@hanzup4117]

I'll be right back - I need to finish watching a Mega Projects video on the MiG 29.

[@xAdam2gx]

Anyone who has Played Battlefield 1 and heard the V1s being called in knows the sound... i couldnt imagine the fear in hearing that at night

[@DerekHarding]

The sound was fine. It was the silence when the engine cut out because that meant it was falling.

[@yomama629]

Battlefield V you mean

[@GlennLittleford]

The pulse jet was started before launching.

[@RealNeutronStar]

A video on a coronavirus vaccination mega project could be made.

[@josephroblesjr.8944]

Video suggestion: The Cray 1 super computer

[@jona_le_mus]

(From the channels I’m subscribed to) 3 videos have been posted! Going to have a great morning...

[@Kabup2]

He always do that, launch a bunch of videos together...

[@megaprojects9649]

@@Kabup2 There's generally a best time for posting videos, US morning.

[@megaprojects9649]

(Also is early enough over here that if something on a video is terribly wrong I'll still be able to do something about it :) )

[@Kabup2]

@@megaprojects9649 lol, that seems reasonable. Anyway, I'm subscribed to all of your channels, so I'm always getting a lot of notifications :D

[@interrygator7250]

It always made me wonder why they never used it against the normandy landing sites, they started firing them at london only a few days after d day so why not have pushed them back a bit and hit the unloading areas even after the landings it would have been taking out much needed men and supplies

[@Grimmtoof]

Probably a mix of the launch sites having to be constructed with fixed trajectory and a much smaller target with friendly troops nearby.

[@interrygator7250]

@@Grimmtoof probably but if you had a dozen launch sites all aimed at the temporary harbour on the beaches then it could have been devastating even if for a short time

[@AlexMarciniszyn-y1k]

No, it would not. Contrary to the common story, the landing beaches were heavily defended. A few German aircraft did appear to strafe and drop a bomb.@@interrygator7250

[@AHGrayLensman]

I studied aerospace engineering at Ohio State in the early '90s, and my thermodynamics and propulsion professor was a guy named Rudolph Edse. He got his PhD in physical chemistry from the University of Hamburg in 1937 and specialized in novel rocket and jet engine fuel formulations. ...yeah, one of my college professors was a German rocket scientist. By all accounts, Edse was instrumental in the design of the V1's pulsejet engine. He got scooped up by Operation Paperclip after the war -- I found an old FBI report that mentioned him in the same sentence as Von Braun -- and started working for Ohio State in 1947. His exams were the stuff of nightmares. He finally had to stop teaching in 1995 after he had a heart attack *in class*, through which he kept teaching and then walked the ~1.5 miles from the lecture hall to the OSU hospital complex. He passed away a couple years later, in 1998.

[@jillbiggar1787]

Really happy that I found your channel, such useful information, thank you!! We will definitely be talking you up amongst our friends here in BC, Canada. Keep it up, guys!

[@dschoene57]

The V stands for Vergeltungswaffe, which literally translates to "revenge weapon"

[@oxcart4172]

I'm certain that nobody used a Russian ground attack aircraft to shoot V-1s down!

[@stephenlemieux4822]

Just another significant error in facts. A picture of a Spitfire or a Hurricane would have been so far more appropriate.

[@YouTube_user3333]

America: we landed on the moon Nazi’s: yeah because you stole our scientists and technology.

[@buckhorncortez]

You mean Robert H. Goddard knew nothing about rockets? Really...?

[@YouTube_user3333]

@@buckhorncortez I didn’t say that. Don’t confuse my words.

[@craigwall9536]

@@KZbin_user3333 You're _already_ confused. We stole NOTHING. Von Braun decided to surrender to us because he and his crew needed jobs and they had a skill. So STFU.

[@YouTube_user3333]

@@craigwall9536 Thanks for your kind words.

[@charlesgillanders4430]

Hi - as a suggestion for a mega project have you ever heard about Ireland’s rural electrification? In 1946 two thirds of the homes in Ireland had no electricity and there was a massive project to connect everyone to the grid and to provide generating capacity to power all those homes.

[@KingSparta]

Very Good.

[@1986krazy]

Hey Simon, could you do a video on the hydraulic liftlock in my hometown of Peterborough, Ontario, Canada? It is the largest of it's kind in the world, and is a heritage site in Canada. It has been around for a long time, and is quite the marvel of engineering

[@sonicgoo1121]

How about some art as a megaproject? Like Christo wrapping up whole islands, or other examples of landscape art?

[@coryfice1881]

You didn't mention the use of Meteor Jets which were the most reliable means to catch up to a V1.

[@AlexMarciniszyn-y1k]

Reliable? Flipping over a V-1 in flight risked detonating it, possibly catching the aircraft doing the flipping in the resulting explosion.

[@dools23]

Simon could you do something on the reunification of Germany? It must've been such an undertaking rejoining two sides of a country which had been split for so long

[@deelkar]

The V1 had a design cruise altitude from 1000 to 6000 ft (pre-set at launch)

[@8000SAC]

"Cruise"...? Really...? :O))

[@dannywilliamson3340]

Simon.....could you please dispense with the "dramatic" selfie thumbnails. You look kinda goofy......no, REALLY goofy.

[@megatwingo]

German here: Only bei accident I guessed, that he wanted to say "Dampferzeuger" when it came to the powering of the launching ramps of the V1. What he really said: Dampfaasuuuga. Cool thing, that Dampfasuuuuga... 😄

[@danielstr8101]

my grandpa never got to see a V1, he was to busy in north Africa and Italy. wish he never died

[@j.a.weishaupt1748]

I think that a lot of grandpa’s never got to see the V1.

[@leobezard5998]

My great grandfather was forced into working to produce panther tanks, oddly enough, the electrical cables had an unfortunate tendency to be, uhhm, reversed, and the tanks did not work. How odd :)

[@KarsonNow]

Real first Cruise Missile (MCLOS) was HS 293. V-1 was dumb flying bomb with accuracy to hit...a town... Version HS 293D was television-guided, with a large Yagi antenna transmitting back to the launch aircraft. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henschel_Hs_293

[@Gregnier]

Hey Simon... Here's a megaproject for you... The Suez Canal, AAAAAAAAAAND. Clearing the Ever Given from it.

[@RedaGio]

Ideas for new videos: Palmanova Venice Messina Strait bridge Misc Italian renaissance cities: Bologna, Milan, Pavia, Urbino… European fighter jets: Tornado, Typhoon, Tempest Leopard tanks

[@freddymarcel-marcum6831]

I spent much of the summer of 2001 in South London, loved it, loved England, after all I grew up in Virginia, which is basically England (I was born in Lynchburg, named after John Lynch, Brit, in Amherst County, father from Bristol, mother from Ashland, next to Bedford County, next to Campbell County, along the James River, you see where I'm going with this😆🇺🇸♥️🇬🇧), lite. Anyhow, as a 24 year old Navy wild guy, I knew I had to establish base camp (pub), which I did. Anyhow, the bathroom had been completely destroyed in years past, and of course they built a new one but left the other in ruins. I asked what happened... "Buzz bomb mate, we'll get round to it one day"... 😆🇺🇸♥️🇬🇧 I love England

[@danielleriley2796]

240 km and hit only 1 km from the target. THAT IS PRECISION BOMBING FOR WW2. Bomber aircraft in those big raids were only getting 5% of bombs within 5 miles, that’s within 8 km. So the V1 was a hair splitting sniper weapon for a bomb.

[@bigianh]

The “V” in the German V1 and V2 rockets stands for “Vergeltungswaffe,” which translates to “Retaliation Weapon” or “Reprisal Weapon” in English

[@ChrisJeffersonJones]

Dear Fact boy ... I know you are a fan of a certain Mr Bill Gates. Maybe you would at least like to look into a MEGA PROJECT of how BG plans on becoming a cartoon super villain by blocking out the sun. Yep, he is going full Mr Burns!! I know, sounds crazy. This request is not sponsored by Raid Shadow Legends. #FreeDanny #BlazeOn

[@sailingcapedissappointment2012]

I guess you hadn't heard about Moulton Burnell Taylor , a US Navy Commander who was tasked with back engineering a V1 that had ran out of fuel and belly landed in field without detonating. Moult then was able to begin design the US first cruise missile program in WWII and actually sink a Nazi U boat ....

[@dallesamllhals9161]

1:28 Yup! 'Aunty 'Junkers 52 = Great against allied fighters And where's Hanna Reitsch & Fieseler Fi 103R?

[@ronaldfinkelstein6335]

The editor of this video screwed up. When Simon starts to talk about aircraft intercepting V-1s, a photo of SOVIET Ilyushin Il-2 ground attack aircraft was shown!

[@glenpekin6410]

I just finished reading (and recommend) 12 Seconds of Silence by Jamie Holmes about the science research war of WWI which is about the invention of the proximity fuse.

[@markuk8253]

Any chance of a video on the super secret NR-1 nuclear-powered mini-submarine, pretty please?

[@dhy5342]

V-1 (the Fiesler-103) had the second-highest production numbers of any WW2 aircraft with over 30,000 made.

[@JurisKankalis]

Imagine the simple German soldiers ordered to maintain and load the V1s. Oh, alright, 30 years ago we were fighting with manual loading rifles and manned, but poorly controlled airships (zeppelins, fabric-winged bi-planes, barely functional first converted bombers). Now we are loading an unmanned droan onto these rails which will then kill our enemes 300 kms away without us needing to push a single button. Also - with the V2, and maybe 1-2 years of additional research, Mr. Hilter would be able to do what North Korea still could not in 2010. German engineering at its finest.

[@michaeltalbot8242]

Excellent, have you covered Concorde either UK)fr, or why did the USA one fail as well as USSRtoo? Kindest regards mickT

[@Coffee_Charly]

Future projects: breaking the sound barrier (land/sea/air) Project Habakkuk the real "the great escape" ww2 POW's

[@Treasureson78RPM]

Sometimes pilots would dive after the V1 and use the airflow from their aircraft wing to tip the flying bomb. It would mess up the bomb's gyro and cause it to crash. They needed to get as near as 6 inches from the bomb's wing to execute the maneuver. The Hawker Tempest was the only interceptor with a good enough low altitude performance to catch up with the V1, but there was only 30 of those planes available. They were assigned to the No. 150 Wing RAF. At least 16 V1s were destroyed that way. Later on more aircrafts like the P-51, Republic Thunderbolt, twin engined Mosquitoes and the Griffon engined Spitfire were used as interceptors.

[@SoundShinobiYuki]

I always get a chuckle out of the naming convention. The Nazis of course are all “It’s name will be Vengeance weapon!” …. And the Brits took the wind right out of that and started calling them “Doodlebugs”.

[@geisterfahreruberholer2171]

It gets annoying that everything Wehrmacht-related gets called Nazi. These guys were soldiers and scientists. Nazi was just a propaganda-term because the Allies couldnt speak "nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei" (NSDAP). Therefore you needed to be a partymember to be called that. Dont get me wrong, I dont want to reduce their crimes but I really just getting tired and cant take it seriosuly when people do these obvious mistakes.

[@frankadam1800]

FLAK Zielgerät would be the correct name of the early design. And V 1 and 2 were weapons of revenge literally, because "V" stands for Vergeltung (=revenge or retaliation).

[@alexandarvoncarsteinzarovi3723]

Did you several British high command members and Churchill himself were considering using captured V1 &V2 with the captured German scientist mounted on the King George V class battleship Duke of York to retake India