To: Lonesome in Massachussets
The "V" stood for the German equivalent of "vengeance." They were purely terror weapons from an evilmind. The V1 and V2 did manage to kill 8000 or so Brits. Had they completed the V3's, it would have been worse.
16 posted on
10/02/2006 9:04:35 AM PDT by
mikeus_maximus
(The Red Chinese are building MG's in Oklahoma-- that's just wrong on so many levels.)
To: mikeus_maximus
Vergeltung.
While 8,000 civilian fatalities was painful, it was militarily insignificant. The U.S. spent $200 million (1943) dollars on the SCR-584 radar directed guns used to kill V-1's, fairly effectively. Eisenhower objected on the grounds that the money could be used more effectively for conventional weapons.
The V- designation was used by the Nazi party. The V-2 was, of course the A-9 at Peenemunde, the A-10 was in planning.
18 posted on
10/02/2006 3:52:12 PM PDT by
Lonesome in Massachussets
(The hallmark of a crackpot conspiracy theory is that it expands to include countervailing evidence.)
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