| Original caption: “La Vie a Londres pendant la guerre. [‘Life in London during the war.’] Vue d’un V-1 dans son vol. [‘View of a V-1 in flight.’]” Fieseler Fi-103, Vergeltungswaffe 1 (“Vegence Weapon 1”) “buzz bomb,” “doodlebug,” “robot bomb,” falls on London in the Summer of 1944. Almost 30,000 V-1s were produced; by March 1944, each was manufactured in approximately 350 hours (including a 120 hours for the autopilot), at a cost of just 4 percent of a V-2, which delivered a comparable payload. Approximately 10,000 were fired at England; 2,419 reached London, killing about 6,184 people and injuring 17,981. The greatest density of hits was received by Croydon, on the south-east fringe of London. Antwerp, Belgium, was hit by 2,448 V-1s from October 1944 to March 1945. | |
| Image Filename | wwii0953.jpg |
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| Image Dimensions | 2171 x 2898 |
| Photographer | |
| Photographer Title | Office of War Information |
| Caption Author | Written or Adapted by Jason McDonald |
| Date Photographed | June 1, 1944 |
| Location | |
| City | London |
| State or Province | London |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Archive | National Archives and Records Administration |
| Record Number | NWDNS-306-NT-3157V |
| Status | Caption ©2026 MFA Productions LLC Please Do Not Duplicate or Distribute Without Permission; Image in the Public Domain |
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