V-1 and V-2
Kees Vanderheyden (keesv@sympatico.ca)
Thu, 24 Apr 1997 20:44:59 -0400
Dear Erin and Jeremy
I risk a bit of an answer to your questions concerning the flying bombs.
The only one I know of, for having seen them in the sky above our house
in Holland, are the V-1. They looked like a flying and humming cigar
followed by a flame. When the sound was strong and the flame long we
felt relatively safe, for it had still quite some distance to go
(...sadly enough to somebody else's home). We were very scared of them.
At the end of the war, the Germans planted them, head first in holes not
fare from our house, before dragging them with them during their flight.
We knew that british planes would sometime tip the wings of the
monsters to send them into the sea or towards some desolate place. We
admired this clever strategy. We knew little of the V-2 because they
flew so high that we could not see them. That's about all I knew as a
little kid at the end of the war.
Kees Vanderheyden
Mont-Saint-Hilaire, Canada