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Author Re: Where did Vera Menchik die?
David Richerby

2005-02-23, 5:56 pm

BarbaraVilliers <louise@cernunos.globalnet.co.uk> wrote:
quote:

> Those V-1s were very unreliable fortunately for us British people. They
> got London and Coventry but much elsewhere was left undamaged.


Coventry was destroyed in November 1940 by bombs dropped from planes, the
old-fashioned way. The V1s didn't come onto the scene until June 1944 and
their range of 150 miles meant they could only reach London and the south-
east of England. I don't think the V2's range was significantly greater.


Dave.

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