THE HOLLINGTON V1 DOODLEBUG 16th July 1944. It was the afternoon of Sunday 16th July 1944. Our pet canary had been making a strange warning call all day. I was five and a half years old, and my ...

I was born in 1939 and lived in a semi in Neasdon. My first memory of the war when I was 2-3 was the drone of the impending arrival of the doodlebugs which I now know had a pulse engine. When the ...

The gutteral burbling of an approaching V1 Flying Bomb – or “Doodlebug” as they were colloquially known – was a sound like nothing else. Once heard in that summer of 1944, it was never forgotten. It ...

A doodlebug brought down by British troops during the Second World War is being excavated in a Kent village. The German V1 flying bomb was blasted from the sky by anti-aircraft fire before it could ...