The V-1 Flying Bomb: The Nazi Cruise Missile

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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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23 мар 2021

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@hanzup4117 3 года назад

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.

@UntakenNick 3 года назад

Let the

@mr606neil 3 года назад

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.

@coreymcconnell1908 3 года назад

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.

@thegunslinger1363 3 года назад

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

@staggertobed 3 года назад

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.

@harryconover289 3 года назад

My mom was there she grew up in London she had one land in her front yard killed her mom and sisters Bury her under rubble the next day she was dug out a little more respect for the millions of people that were killed in the war please

@tedsmith6137 3 года назад

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.

@johnh1001 3 года назад

Didn't you all know , the V1 was invented by a plumber from the Bronx while he was sitting on the throne .

@TDCFire 3 года назад

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

@grapeshot 3 года назад

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.

@MegaAndroyd 3 года назад

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.

@paulhaynes8045 3 года назад

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.

@thomasdarby6084 3 года назад

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.

@ignitionfrn2223 3 года назад

1:00

@tknispel 3 года назад

We need a Biographics on Wernher Von Braun!

@jshicke 3 года назад

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.

@jacobzimmermann59 3 года назад

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

@EdMcF1 3 года назад

1:30

@jetsons101 3 года назад

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.