num_pages: 48
description: The first deployment of the V-1 was in June 1944 when following two years of tests Hitler gave the order to attack England. Known to the Allies as the Buzz Bomb or Doodlebug the V-1 was the world's first cruise missile. This book explores the V-1 in detail from its initial concept first use in 1944 the various Allied counter-measures and the later use of the V-1 during the Battle of the Bulge. The major foreign derivatives including the US copy JB-2 Loon and numerous post-war Soviet variants are also covered.
language: English
title: V-1 Flying Bomb 1942–52: Hitler’s infamous “doodlebug”
publisher: Osprey Publishing