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by COLIN LAWSON
BERLIN.
XaSuthern Germany tubby, thrice-a-hubby Crnet Heinkel has just emishen his nie stry.
It has burst like one of the bomba his drop ed over one-quarter of the world, but flat red
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HITLER TRIES SOME
MORE NEW WEAPONS
SECOND threat
diew new. This was the tonise - range with rocket, or V2, which we had been so pre- trepied 12 months before. The Germans, however, had
IN
CONTINUING SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL'S NEW BOOK OF WAR MEMOIRS, "TRIUMPH AND TRAGEDY." THIS FIFTH CHAPTER, HE EFFECT
OF THE V2
WRITES ABOUT THE LONG-RANGE ROCKET. AND. OF ANOTHER MULTI-BARREL GUN THAT FAILED
in our
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W la I have ricorded the "ret l'a- ol Adler's lor cempalen orain t Erginrd. We must not forget that Belgium suffered with equal bitterness when the Germans attempted to use the same vindic Ive vienpons avant de librenied cities. Wd allow the did no. of e urre, German attack to go unparried. Ger Our bombing of, German
Pro duelin centres, and o.her tar t gets happily reduced the scale
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nd I difficult to perfect, and in the meantime it had heen overtaken by the fly-
mil power. The pump in its ny homb But almost as evacuating about ens
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e driven Bned the attack 14′′0 er 50 soon as the bombs began to len people from London,
rockets a month, hared between hit us the signs appeared Every effort wha made by hydrogen peroxide.
rolled by Lonion and the Continent, com- radio ignals paced with on intended rate n° to complete the remaining hat a rcket assault was
Hyroscopes or by
could knowledge oraing
ler e on gaps
gruphile no. Thus, al' ugh vo a'so approaching.
do litle against the The weight of the rocket about the size, performance vines puced behind the jet 10
of the reflect the exhaust reales and 6. thee it was burched we west of effort against Belgium
ALLC the rocket. .1 fir 1 rue me and substantially reduced much as against our elves; but *D re-dep.py and its war-head became and characteristics
bjects of high dispute, rocket. Fragmentary evi-
vertically for six miles
ro, the weight of the onsiau . wes rei carv
with Amen, Alghter and run defeners, Ab ut 200. ckel Certain early but doubtful dence fr.m many sources and automatic contr 13
climb with were n'm'd agant Lonen, all their elaborate central, l Kahyince reports had was pieced together by our turned it over to
avainst Ant the newly won territories, and, in ranting speed at abou, 45deg mot of the ret suggested war-heads of five Intelligence Services
When the speed wa! Lufficient werp, and a few against other to 10 tons, and these were presented to the "Cross-
for the desired range, furtherContinental targets. Committee. From seized upon by those of our bow
entrals cut off the fuels from that the jet and the missie then experts who believed on this, it was deduced
.N a gigantic other grounds that such the rocket weighed 12 tons, dew weights
acne-ton were reasonable. with
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war-head. reaching a heily of and I did not feel the need for
were
in June 1943, even before confirmed when the Royal ("here were any indications-Aircraft-Establishment had.
cet than 80 tons; but, with all the controversy, an- xiety remained acute.
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WE knew that work was and guided to target by rockets were launched. any each of which was probably no significant:
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The advent of the long- radio-crntrolled. Jei- range. propelled projectile han open-
cd up vast now possibilities in the conduct of military In
the. <perations.
future par:ession of superiority in long-distance rocket ertillery well count for pa much as superiority In: naval air power. High-grade
Ec'en-
The enemy made no mention of his new misiles until Nov. 8.
"Every m before check
about 200 a publle statement until Nov. 10. ERMAN records thew that by crd of the war Antwerp The launching I was then able to a cure the ad utin tai irrget der 8 698 dy* was to be made I recall Some believed that the This light weight explain mies and
miles away from where call. It - W wan' te
"And rocket would weigh 80 tons, ed many things that had point. It maximum speed was li-use that the scale and effects in bombs and 1.610 rockets, 5,060 visit you, then rang off
puzzled us, such as the ab- about 4.000 miles an hour, and of the attack had not hitherto ora! here fell within eight miles bow ny men worked get with a 10-ton war-head.
This fortunately of the city centre, and between of elaborate launch- the whole flight took no more been serious. Lord Cherwell, everything zwey!"
than three or four minutes. continued to be true the whout them they killed 3470 Belgian the remaining months of the citizens, and 192 Allled service- strongly v.ndicated in his hug arrangements.
These calculations
A further 3.14)
3.141 Bying stand for the flying bomb
homlig were almed .ogainst Despite the great technical
nepinst trwy ddened body..
the end of August-it néhlevements Speer, the highly cge, and 11 rockets
Brussel. The people of Belgium- Te French relegate anred
of it from Intelligence, was the opportunity to examine Azemed that
сиг armies competeni German Minister o
hore this centelesa - bombard- the offert % talon, Poh red
a spirit equal to cur we the wreckage of an actua! might expe: the enemy from all Munitions, deplered Henkel's rendy le: "Oh, very doubtful whether
It came into our territ-ry within the 200-mile that had been put into wait ng ment in only an apprentice's instruction should ever see the rocket rcket. medel."
in operation at all, and hands as the result of a range of the rocket from Lon- rockets. He asserted that ench in dn. but they managed to hold one took as long to produce as
The German "y", weapons, $ix On
or soven Achters, which "The group went away. Sud-certainly not the monster lucky and freak error
Walcheren and The Hague.
far more though in the event unsuccess- nt Peenemunde Wa
impressed Us with the druly the Jenance spoke up. of 80 tors. Between the the trials
Sept. 8. a week after the main would have been
b ntbardment ceased, the useful, and that 20 flying bombs ful.
ct these sew Be won the day. Nothing more
extremes there were a few on June 13, and according vi
could have been ma e for the potentialitles launched their first
report io the was heard"
Iwo Do not think the Reds were Intelligence reports which to a prisoner the explana. Germans
rocket: against Lorton, cost of one rocket. This post method. In a
Sandys Cabinet Duncan confirm: the lighter tion was as follows.
Import- beckward in buying. To Russia suggested, a much
The Arst V2 fell at Chiswick at war int ralion
the views Lord Cherwell had 6 phasised the decisive mission,
17 minutes to seven in
which guided missiles the Ence before evening, the other at Epping 10 often expres.od
might have in future wars, and pointed the need for devoting zeconds later,
It was fortunate that the FOR come time the Germans About 1,300 were fired against
development. The following I had been using gider bombs England in the seven months Germans spent so much effort substantial resources to their
instead rockcis
deemed against our th.pping. These before rur armies could liberate on
bombers. Even our Mosquitoes, axiraet launched front aircraft The were
Hague,
most whence
dropped dearer than a rocket, 500 hit continuing at Peene- radlo. It was now decided to fell shert, but abrut
1043 of the average 125 total The
civilian on
bombs per aircraft within cne "Thus the Red Air Force was munde [the German experi- see whether a rocket could he London.
in the came way. Ancasunities caused by the V2 in sleered
and mile of the target during their tilt up with German technical mental station on the Bal-
operator was obtained, England were 2724 killed expert lepriei h, of courte. tic], and sparse reports from and placed in a good position 6,467 reriously injured.
Hfe, whereas the rocket.drippert inkel supplying assis'ence.
the Continent renewed our to watch the missile from the
rocket one lon only, and that with an On the average nach
average error of 15 miles. When Bnally the ban on air-
cause about twice as many concern about the scale and start. with- at eruction
was
The Peenemunde experiment-carualiles as 口 flying bomb. mininence of the attack. ..... rown Germany was far, far
wete 好みます SCU MIKL Although the war-heads were of 51
On July 18, 1944, Dr Jones ceeing mush on that
rocket rise, and it had much the same size, the strident teinkel boo's he was already informed the "Crossbow"
not accurred to them that the engine of the flying bomb warn- HITLER had hoped to have yet hipper scon afterwards of the
would
This Committee [a special Inter- gilder-pomo experi
ed people to take cover. The holier "V" wees. persibilities of rockat and jo.-
was to have been a multi-barrel r.cket approached in rience. *margiled rights.
Service body that there turprised by the spectacle.
613 surprised he was, so much
Many counter-measures were long-range gun in tallation dug With
Hiler
power, might well be 1,000 rockets that he forgot his own part in tried, and still more In
explored. Into the ground near the village Heinkel's for roared too.
already in existence. On the Turprise that, at
pushed the contre 1
more than Calais. Each of the 50 smooth- everything
alleviate bore
tru dan Sandya was chairman lover well off to the left and year, before did
barrels was about 40, fee. threat. The V2 attack would leng, and it was to fire a she'l of this committee] report he.d it here.
The rocket obediently kept ed to the 'Cabinet:
otherwise have a'aried at least about six inches in diameter turning to the left, and by the as early as the VI attack, and it and stabiked, not by spin, but time the operator had pulled
#ou'd heve bean from a by fins like a dart. Although wo have as himself together it was out of shorter range, and therefore
VE brgin to design our own vet no reliable informa control
WE for range and heading mo.c accurate, in June than it in stoe-.ube, at srequent Inter- W multos, mirálta, end by the tion about the movement swe.en. There it 10.1. We was in September and after. vals up the barrel, und wer end of the war we had founded a ignited in successi: n DA the permeni organisation for this icmains
projectile sccelerated. The shel purpose. was intended. io
frem emerso he unwise to assume from were brani to Burb
Such is the a:le of this new where our experts sorted out
CVIL WE HOL negative evidence the batcred
with Iragments
HE US. Air Feres confiru'd the barrel with a speed of at THE
de- pinned his stubborn hopes that a rocket attack is noteworthy success. Before the to bomb Peimmunde in Juy least 5,000 feet por zecond, and weapons
with so many barrels the end of August we knew exactly and August, and both they and nigners hopal to are a shell at many monas, and of their de
Bomber Command attacked
feat London every few minutes.
by the foresight of the factories making reckel
Briith Administration, the kill In a Minute to me the
our This time. however, ler's of the Services, and the fortitude ponents. We owe it to following day, the Chiefs.
mes that they had ruthed the hopes were completely
riis of Staff wrote:
trial proof the porple who by the'r "The Air
rocket back to the limit of its appointed: all the
this war, tava "Greater London" Staff agree with this state. THE rocket was an impressive range before the Germans were feetles "lapped" in flight, and set for the second time in
range and at last ready to opon fire.
accuracy were there- techiles rubovimint. ment, and the Chiefs of
a prouder meaning. fore tactical
A hundred very peor. Our
Aghters and Staff consider that the War thrust was devolopci in a je frem
(Continued. Tomorrow) combustion ef dieqnot und
and bombers. continually worried the scientists, technicians, and serv Cabinet should be warned." liquid oxygen, nearly four tons euaching*pointa
Ing officers met in Berlin ch The E
tho The situation was discussed of the former and five of the Hague. We made ready to jam May 4: 1941, and came to by the Cabinet on July 27 latter being consumed in about the rado control of the, rockets, unpleasant conclusion that the and wo considered proposals a minute. To force theso fuels, should the Germans use it, and Fuchrer would have to be told. by Mr Herbert Morrison into the Jet chamber at the we even considered attempting of the failure.
rate needed a special to burst the rockels in the air. required which would have Involved pump of nearly 1,000 horse- by munding as they foll
A
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But
time when Adenauer is trying July 24 Sandyg' (Mr Dun- e procedure. In his asion, h- The ra.d on Peenemunde over a of Mimoyecques, in the Pas-de-
o bring a relee'art France te wity the European Defaner Hemmunity, and rebuild a G-
WET force, this bock cvld spear.
DW # be a subtle ferm of blackmail? An implied thres "You see what we did last time. Do you thinke wo are content to ri 1 end do nothing this limc? Bul,
course, our me hats ars not the same."!
I wonder,
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