29-04-2016, 09:37 AM
I too had a narrow escape from a V1 although, being only about 6 months old, I knew nothing about it at the time!
We lived only a few hundred yards from a track which was the entrance to a disused 19th century chalk quarry.
The V1 landed in that quarry entrance which, although not that deep at that point was sufficient to direct some of the blast upwards. An entire row of about 25 houses backing on to the quarry was flattened (becoming a kids' playground as I grew up, as so many bomb sites did). All the houses in the road that ran at a right angle to these was badly damaged and ours was the 8th one down.
This particular V1 seems to have been particularly potent as, despite its impact point below ground level, damage was reported up to three quarters of a mike away!
We lived only a few hundred yards from a track which was the entrance to a disused 19th century chalk quarry.
The V1 landed in that quarry entrance which, although not that deep at that point was sufficient to direct some of the blast upwards. An entire row of about 25 houses backing on to the quarry was flattened (becoming a kids' playground as I grew up, as so many bomb sites did). All the houses in the road that ran at a right angle to these was badly damaged and ours was the 8th one down.
This particular V1 seems to have been particularly potent as, despite its impact point below ground level, damage was reported up to three quarters of a mike away!
