V Weapons
V Weapons
Just trying to get a handle on the number and effectiveness of the V1 attacks against the Allies. Here's what I have:
Number built - approx 30,000
Number fired against England - approx 10,000
Number that hit - 2,419
Casualities - 6,184 killed and 17,981 injured
Number destroyed - 4,261 [of which 2,202 were destroyed by AAA, 1,759 were destroyed by aircraft (Tempest-638, Mosquito-428, Spitfire-303, Mustang-232, all other types-158) and 300 by hitting barrage balloons].
That leaves 3,320 unaccounted for of those fired at England. Anyone know what happened to them? I have read that KG3 air fired (from He 111's) 1,176 at England between July '44 and January '45. but am unsure whether they are included in the above totals, or additional to.
A further 2,448 V1's struck Antwerp, Belgium betweenOctober '44 and March '45. Don't know how many were actually fired at Antwerp. So what happened to the other 15,000? How many would have been destroyed in France and Holland by air attacks?
According to a Paper prepared by an American general, Clayton Bissell, the V1 attacks against England proved very effective compared to conventional bombing during the Blitz in 1940/41.
Blitz (bombers) 8 months v's V1 Flying Bombs 3 months
Sorties 90,000 v's 8,025
Bomb (tons) 61,149 v's 14,600
Fuel (tons) 71,700 v's 4,681
Aircraft Lost 3,075 v's 0
Men lost 7,690 v's 0
Houses Dam/Dest 1,150,000 v's 1,127,000
Casualties 92,566 v's 22,862
Rate Casualities/ton bomb 1.6 v's 1.6
Allied Air Effort
Sorties 86,800 v's 44,770
Planes lost 1,120 v's 351
Men Lost 2,233 v's 805
Number built - approx 30,000
Number fired against England - approx 10,000
Number that hit - 2,419
Casualities - 6,184 killed and 17,981 injured
Number destroyed - 4,261 [of which 2,202 were destroyed by AAA, 1,759 were destroyed by aircraft (Tempest-638, Mosquito-428, Spitfire-303, Mustang-232, all other types-158) and 300 by hitting barrage balloons].
That leaves 3,320 unaccounted for of those fired at England. Anyone know what happened to them? I have read that KG3 air fired (from He 111's) 1,176 at England between July '44 and January '45. but am unsure whether they are included in the above totals, or additional to.
A further 2,448 V1's struck Antwerp, Belgium betweenOctober '44 and March '45. Don't know how many were actually fired at Antwerp. So what happened to the other 15,000? How many would have been destroyed in France and Holland by air attacks?
According to a Paper prepared by an American general, Clayton Bissell, the V1 attacks against England proved very effective compared to conventional bombing during the Blitz in 1940/41.
Blitz (bombers) 8 months v's V1 Flying Bombs 3 months
Sorties 90,000 v's 8,025
Bomb (tons) 61,149 v's 14,600
Fuel (tons) 71,700 v's 4,681
Aircraft Lost 3,075 v's 0
Men lost 7,690 v's 0
Houses Dam/Dest 1,150,000 v's 1,127,000
Casualties 92,566 v's 22,862
Rate Casualities/ton bomb 1.6 v's 1.6
Allied Air Effort
Sorties 86,800 v's 44,770
Planes lost 1,120 v's 351
Men Lost 2,233 v's 805
Re: V Weapons
Hello Pips,
Don't know if this will help but this site http://www.flyingbombsandrockets.com/ has the complete logs of all attacks on South London and a lot of more general V-weapon info. Also, http://www.bbc.co.uk/ww2peopleswar/cate ... x_16.shtml has a lot of oral history snippets on the V1 and 2 attacks from both civillian and military witnesses.
Cheers.
Don't know if this will help but this site http://www.flyingbombsandrockets.com/ has the complete logs of all attacks on South London and a lot of more general V-weapon info. Also, http://www.bbc.co.uk/ww2peopleswar/cate ... x_16.shtml has a lot of oral history snippets on the V1 and 2 attacks from both civillian and military witnesses.
Cheers.
Re: V Weapons
Thanks Inselaffe, those sites provide some good background.
Cheers
Cheers
Re: V Weapons
Some of the shot down / stopped on Ballons did probably some damage and took toll, they too. Although they were no longer dangerous to the City of London itself.
About the bid difference Produced - and Launched away. Quite a few were probably faulty, and thus never fired away.
Many were probably never delivered to the lauching places - laying in magazines, waiting for transport. Destroyed during transport. Remember the railways were heavy shelled at that time by fliers. Person-transports worked decently almost into the last, as they had probably priority 1. But not hurrying other transports had to wait...
I guess also the fliers attacked more vigourously transport-trains and apparent military trains, than apparent civilian trains (although some of passengers on the civilian trains were always officers and soldiers too).
About the bid difference Produced - and Launched away. Quite a few were probably faulty, and thus never fired away.
Many were probably never delivered to the lauching places - laying in magazines, waiting for transport. Destroyed during transport. Remember the railways were heavy shelled at that time by fliers. Person-transports worked decently almost into the last, as they had probably priority 1. But not hurrying other transports had to wait...
I guess also the fliers attacked more vigourously transport-trains and apparent military trains, than apparent civilian trains (although some of passengers on the civilian trains were always officers and soldiers too).
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Re: V Weapons
And how many were like the rows of V2s found at the Mittelwerke - weapons piled up lacking one or two particular parts due to metals shortages and transport from subcontractors.Many were probably never delivered to the lauching places - laying in magazines, waiting for transport. Destroyed during transport. Remember the railways were heavy shelled at that time by fliers. Person-transports worked decently almost into the last, as they had probably priority 1. But not hurrying other transports had to wait...
Re: V Weapons
Hello to all ; a complement.........................................
The Comet of the revenge.
Source: Die Wehrmacht Nr. 16 2. August 1944.
Cheers. Raúl M .
The Comet of the revenge.
Source: Die Wehrmacht Nr. 16 2. August 1944.
Cheers. Raúl M .
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