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Posted on Oct 15, 2008 in Stuff We Like

Nazi V1 Attack on New York?

By Jason St. Just

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Nazi V1 Attack on New York
One of our forum members has recently found a very interesting scrap of newspaper from the San Diego Tribune. The document dates back to the summer of 1944 and reports on the approval from Adolf Hitler to launch V1 (robot bombs) from German submarines in the Atlantic. Do you believe that the Germans had this technology and that they could have launched a strike on the U.S? Or was it another one of the Fuhrer’s impossible chimeras? Check out the Weapons of War forum and tell us what YOU think.


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  1. Regarding Nazi V1 attack on New York : In 1948 I heard a story in Norway about a submarine in the bomb-proof pens in Bergen which was equipped to launch V1 missiles, and how it was damaged by British bombing. I can find no other references to such a submarine-mounted V1 in World War II, although after the war the US experimented with this using a US submarine in 1947 (see Axis History Factbook: the V-1 Flying Bomb.) I would like any information on German plans to strike the US with missiles from submarines, also an exact reference to the San Diego Tribune story mentioned .