Word: robombs
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Dates: during 1944-1944
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...most Londoners were convinced that they were in for something infernally worse: a rocket-propelled robomb whose deadly war head might be ten times the size of V-1s, with explosive force far greater than even the R.A.F.'s six-ton factory-buster (see below...
...Fighters. If the robomb gets through, it runs into a wide belt of fighter planes-Spitfires, Mustangs, Mosquitoes, Tempests. Pilots of the day force are in readiness from an hour before dawn to an hour after dark. It is a dangerous business: the R.A.F. rewards it by giving Distinguished Flying Crosses for every ten robombs downed. The highest individual score last week was 27 shot down, credited to Rene van Lierde, a Belgian...