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Fighters chase the Things to the edges of a balloon barrage that would scare off a bomber pilot. But many a pilotless bomber gets through...
...Forces' record week of bombing Germany, the targets of some bombers were factories producing pilotless bombers and their fuels. How effective it would be in stopping the scourge, no man yet knew. In their sixth week of suffering from the Germans' Vergeltungswaffe 1 (Reprisal Weapon 1), Londoners had no relief...
...significant: the experimental stations at Peenemünde and Zinnowitz on the wooded Baltic coast (R.A.F. attacks there a year ago were officially credited with having delayed V-1 by six months); robot-parts plants at Friedrichshafen and Memmingen in southwest Germany; unnamed factories turning out special fuels for pilotless bombs; storage points in France and Germany for bombs and fuels. Part of the strategic pattern was a concentrated blasting of the Bayerische Motorenwerke (Munich), which makes robot propulsion engines. It was reported four-fifths destroyed...
...that the Germans have used their secret weapon--a winged bomb, pilotless and probably pet-propelled--the British are tackling the problem of countering it with far more confidence than they had when they set about the job of finding an answer to the night-bombing threat of four years ago." N. Y. Times, June...
Swedes got an unscheduled preview of a new German weapon last week. A pilotless, rocket-driven aircraft crashed near Bertilstorp, in south Sweden. Apparently it had strayed out of control of its radio beam. Observers who studied the wreckage said the craft had no wings, tail, or landing gear. It carried two spherical mines which were thrown 100 yards by the crash, but did not explode...