Project leader Colin Welch told Live Science that almost 10,000 V1 flying bombs were fired mainly from launching ramps in German-controlled Holland against the southeast of England in 1944 and 1945.

A Hull-born man now approaching his 84th birthday has recalled a Christmas from his early childhood when a flying bomb made its impact on the city. John Holmes, who was born in Ings Road, Sutton ...

Those wings fold out in flight, taking the weapon from a diameter of 9.5 inches to a flying bomb with a wingspan over 5 feet. In other words, this bomb launches from a tube like a rocket, ...