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PsyWar.Org · 13-05-2008, 05:32 PM

The common name at the time in Britain for them was "Doodle-bug", funnny enough the Germans themselves nicknamed them "Dödel".

Apart from shooting them down, a novel way of bringing them down over England was for a fighter plane to fly alongside them and using their wing tip to gently lift the wing of a V1. The V1 would then flip and crash. Obviously this was done over the open fields of Kent before they reached London.

There was also a very interesting deception campagin run by the Double-X committee, using captured and turned German agents, to send back false data to Germany about where the V1's were crashing. Basically they told Germany most were crashing in North East London, so that the Germans would compensate by reducing their range.

13-05-2008, 05:32 PM	#2 (permalink)
PsyWar.Org Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: East Bay, CA, USA Posts: 124	The common name at the time in Britain for them was "Doodle-bug", funnny enough the Germans themselves nicknamed them "Dödel". Apart from shooting them down, a novel way of bringing them down over England was for a fighter plane to fly alongside them and using their wing tip to gently lift the wing of a V1. The V1 would then flip and crash. Obviously this was done over the open fields of Kent before they reached London. There was also a very interesting deception campagin run by the Double-X committee, using captured and turned German agents, to send back false data to Germany about where the V1's were crashing. Basically they told Germany most were crashing in North East London, so that the Germans would compensate by reducing their range. __________________