Spitfire Women Of World War II (2007) - Plot & Excerpts
Hanging in the sky over the English Channel – more precisely, pulsing towards London at 390 mph – it looked pitiless. With no-one on board, it could hit a primary school or a country ditch and not know the difference. With no-one on board, you could shoot it down and still not have the satisfaction of taking a pilot out of the war.The V1 flying bomb was powered by a ramjet and guided by gyroscopes. It could be launched from almost anywhere and could carry nearly a tonne of high explosive from German-occupied Holland to the Isle of Dogs. It was horribly advanced; so advanced, in fact, that the Allies failed to take it seriously until it was too late. The first inkling of a secret weapons programme, had anyone been paying attention, came in a British intelligence report of November 1939 that spoke of a rocket research establishment at Peenemunde on the German Baltic coast, 150 miles east of Hamburg. In a different era, Britain would launch a war on the strength of similar (albeit flimsier) intelligence, but the first Peenemunde tip-off was ignored.
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