Marsh Is.#489 V-1 Bombardment of England - 1994 Imperforate Mint Issue
June 13, 1944 The sky was filled with an eerie whistling sound on June 13 and moments later airborne bombs rained down on London. The destructive wrath of the buzz bombs had begun. The V-1 was a jet-propelled, unmanned flying bomb launched from Holland that carried a one-ton warhead. The more advanced V-2, introduced several months later, was a powerful 46-foot rocket against which England had no defense. Constant attacks kept factory workers in bomb shelters and off the production lines. Thirty thousand V-1s and V-2s were launched against England, taking thousands of lives and costing millions in damages. The terror ended in March 1945 when General Patton’s advances cut off fuel supply lines from Germany to launch sites in the Netherlands. Had Germany developed the buzz bomb technology a year or two earlier, the outcome of the war might have been drastically different.
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