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...main body is an iron tube loaded with explosive roughly equivalent to a one-ton aerial bomb. This blows up when the fuel is burned out and the robot hits something. Speed is about 300 m.p.h. ; maximum range, possibly 150 miles...
Long Odds. As a precision instrument of war the robot is something to make soldiers weep. It probably cannot be "aimed" at any target smaller than a fair-sized city. The Germans themselves admitted that it could not be used on the Normandy battleground without endangering their own troops...
...fact remains that wherever the robot bomb does hit, it does as much damage to any luckless person, building or section of landscape as though the projectile had been precision-aimed...
...first robot bombs hit at night. Then for five days last week they crashed down on southern England. British authorities, unwilling to tell the enemy what he was hitting, suppressed all details of the places struck (German propaganda implied that London was the chief target), but acknowledged that damage had been done, people hurt and killed. If any military targets were hit, the Germans did not get the satisfaction of learning about...
...hospitals were robot-bombed. A nurse in one said she was awakened by the approach of something "like a ball of fire in the sky." Seconds later "there was a terrific explosion and the whole place seemed to blow up. . . . When I got myself free I found a part of the home demolished. I heard cries of nurses trapped under the debris. We got some of them free by clearing away the wreckage with our hands...