Funny you should mention the V1, my father(19 yrs old at the time) who
was in German University in their Aeronatical Program was pulled from
school and sent to a factory to
assemble the V1 missles.

They were built rather hastily he says and it no doubt resulted in less
than predicatable performance when trying to set them out to a target.

I think the best they could hope for was that they would indeed explode
somewhere in England when sent off in that direction.

It was more for the demoralization of the enemy, not knowing when or
where these things would go, than specific targets and quite frequently
they simple exploded in empty fields.

Terrors of war are not limited by the imagination, and these are things
people would rather forget.

Ray Buhr