September 8, 2006
V-2 Rocket Hits London
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Developed by Germany during WWII, the Vergeltungswaffe 2 (V-2) Rocket was the world's 1st modern ballistic missile. It was unmanned, internally guided, and traveled at supersonic speeds that allowed it to reach its target in silence. Mass production of the V-2 began in 1943 at the Mittelbau-Dora slave labor camp, and between 1944 and 1945, England and Belgium suffered numerous V-2 rocket attacks that killed thousand of civilians. What does Vergeltungswaffe mean?
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