My mothers house was hit by a V-Rocket on 19th November 1944, it was a direct hit on her house, she was lucky to survive Kaz. -----Original Message----- From: Chris Willis Sent: Friday, December 14, 2012 12:10 PM To: eng-surrey@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [SRY] WWII London Bombing - V weapons Hi Pam thanks for that. It had failed to distinguish between the blitz and the V weapons, and to recognize the substantial lull. I guess the germans had more pressing concerns. Chris ----- Original Message ----- From: "Pam Hillier" <pamhillier24@virginbroadband.com.au> To: <eng-surrey@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, December 14, 2012 5:39 AM Subject: [SRY] WWII London Bombing - V weapons > Hi Chris & John, > I have a copy of a book called "Courageous Croydon" ( a Croydon > advertiser > publication) and I quote. > " For three years after the blitz from May 1941 to June 1944 there was a > lull in Croydons war-time ordeal > with only sporadic raids. Then came the V-weapons." unquote. > Croydon is very close to London albeit considered at the time to be Surrey > and my family all lived around here during the war, Croydon, Norwood > etc. My dad was in the AK-AK.........So I can assume from this, that Wiki > might just might have it right. > Cheers Pam from Adelaide Australia > >> John >> >> to be a bit more precise, Bomb-sight covers 7th October 1940 to 6th June >> 1941. Google suggest that the V1 flew around this latter date, but that >> conflicts with Wikipedia, which states the designer of the whole weapon >> was >> not involved until 1942. The pulse jet engine was tested in January 1941, >> and was flown in April. Wikipedia says the first use was on 13 June 1944 >> following the allied landings in France. >> >> Chris Willis in Yateley, Hants > > . *************************************** Send your List messages using **PLAIN TEXT** and always **TRIM AWAY** superfluous old messages in replies. List Admin can be contacted at: Eng-Surrey-admin@rootsweb.com . ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ENG-SURREY-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message