| Dr A. N. Walker 2005-02-23, 5:56 pm |
| In article <SQA*UqXHq@news.chiark.greenend.org.uk>,
David Richerby <davidr@chiark.greenend.org.uk> wrote:
quote:
>They were targeted by being pointed in a particular direction and given
>enough fuel to fly x miles. They only hit London at all because it's
>such a big place.
Many of them missed, thanks to a successful dis-information
campaign. The govt arranged for many/most of the strikes in S and
E London to go unreported, unlike the ones in N and W London, thus
persuading the Germans that they had been using too much fuel. Takes
skill to do this without distorting the "random" distribution! By
the end of the campaign, the range had been shortened so much that
most of the V1s were falling harmlessly, except to a few cows and
possibly Mrs Stevenson, in the Kent countryside.
--
Andy Walker, School of MathSci., Univ. of Nott'm, UK.
anw@maths.nott.ac.uk
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