> Had it not been for Spitfires (one of which I am pleased to say, I have=
> flown).
You lucky, lucky person.
> A Spitfire is the only known aircraft to have engaged a V2 rocket in =
armed
> combat. (See Raymond Baxter's
> autobiography.
>
> Geoff Love, The English Connection.
>
>
Don't have the book but are you sure it was a V2? I've always understood=
that
V2's came down vertically at faster than the speed of sound. Fighter pla=
nes
were used to shoot down V1's and tip them off course by flipping
them over with a wing tip. Ironically, V2's are said to have caused less=
damage than the V1's even though they contained more explosive power. =
The V2
exploded below ground level and the V1 above, the V2 caused total destruc=
tion
over a small area while the V1 caused less damage but over a wider area. =
My
Mother worked in the City of London during the Blitz and it was a habit =
to go
to a particular Post Office at lunchtime on the same day each week, excep=
t one
day she decided not to go. A V1 exploded in the street right outside tha=
t Post
Office that lunchtime killing everyone in it and in the street.
PaulH
73 Roadster (HD&H)
75 V8 (DD)
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