Originally Posted by tetvet

V2 only carried a one ton explosive war head hardly enough to do very much damage .

In december 1944,a V2 fell on the cinema Rex in Antwerp :567 people of an audience of 1200 were killed .

No doubt a V2 would do Sevier damage if it fell on a crowed the Germans fired a thousand of these things at England and killed 9000 people or 9 people a rocket hardly devastating much like the 122mm rocket the NVA fired at us maybe 50 in one night usually killed at the most 2-3 if that .

Originally Posted by Kesse81

Thanks for the language lesson, but I speak fluent German.
Now, don´t trust everything it says on Wikipedia.

Versuchsmuster-1 is the correct initial German term for the V-1. The operational version was codenamed Flakzielgerät 76 (FZG-76)"Anti-Aircraft target device 76 " later renamed Fieseler Fi 103.

The official name for the V-2 was Fernrakete A4 (A4 = Aggregat 4)
Vergeltungswaffen / Wunderwaffe are names made up by the German Propaganda Ministry.

You can see that, if you one day visit Penemünde in Germany.

That was my source on this one. I to remain skeptical at times of Wikipedia at times. I have seen facts and figures that are a bit skewed.

Originally Posted by JOC

That was my source on this one. I to remain skeptical at times of Wikipedia at times. I have seen facts and figures that are a bit skewed.

It was not meant as criticism of your post.
We are also here to learn from each other.

Originally Posted by tetvet

. Considering the allies dropped 1.6 million tons of bombs over Europe the V2 was a drop in the bucket .

Originally Posted by BritinAfrica

Obviously you have never been on the recieving end of a V2, if you had you wouldn't consider it to be a "drop in a bucket"

He's making a comparison of total weight of ordnance. Same way the Soviets compare the larger total weight of artillery shells fired into Berlin vs the weight of bombs dropped by the Allies earlier.

Originally Posted by Kesse81

Thanks for the language lesson, but I speak fluent German.
Now, don´t trust everything it says on Wikipedia.

Versuchsmuster-1 is the correct initial German term for the V-1. The operational version was codenamed Flakzielgerät 76 (FZG-76)"Anti-Aircraft target device 76 " later renamed Fieseler Fi 103.

The official name for the V-2 was Fernrakete A4 (A4 = Aggregat 4)
Vergeltungswaffen / Wunderwaffe are names made up by the German Propaganda Ministry.

You can see that, if you one day visit Penemünde in Germany.

Thanks for that, I find myself in Berlin this xmas for a few days so I think I may head up to Rostock, Peenemunde and if possible head back across to the German Naval Memorial at Laboe to finish up the things I missed 3 years ago.

Originally Posted by George

He's making a comparison of total weight of ordnance. Same way the Soviets compare the larger total weight of artillery shells fired into Berlin vs the weight of bombs dropped by the Allies earlier.

This map shows the number of bombs dropped on London during the blitz, however it does not include all of the bombs dropped.

http://bombsight.org/#11/51.5017/-0.0985