204. Hitler's Vengeance Weapons

Battleground

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🗓️ 9 October 2024

⏱️ 45 minutes

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In this episode Patrick explores the deadly V weapons developed by the Nazi's best scientists, which reigned down destruction on London and elsewhere in the final months of the second world war. Joining Patrick to discuss the story behind these weapons is Christy Campbell, Author of Target London: Under attack from the V-weapons during WWII. Together they look at the secrecy that surrounded the development of these weapons, the key figures in the story, and what the purpose of the weapons was. If you have any thoughts or questions, you can send them to - [email protected] Producer: James Hodgson X (Twitter): @PodBattleground Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:17.7	Drones, cruise missiles and ballistic missiles are horribly frequent in the news these days as they rain down on Ukraine and the Middle East.
1:25.6	80 years ago, the ancestors of these weapons were raining down on London and the Middle East. Eighty years ago, the ancestors of these weapons were reigning down on London and
1:30.5	Southeast Britain as Hitler unleashed his supposedly war-winning answer to the relentless incursions
1:36.9	of his enemies, the Red Army in the East, and the Allied armies in the West, fresh
1:41.8	from victory in Normandy.
1:43.6	These were the Vergerdungswaffe,
1:46.1	the revenge weapons, the V1 flying bomb and the V2 rocket that was supposed to bring Britain to its
1:51.7	knees. With me to talk about not just Hitler's so-called wonder weapons, but the unfortunate
1:57.0	people who were forced to make them, and the band of scientists, codebreakers, spies and
2:02.6	airmen who countered the threat is Christy Campbell, an old friend and colleague, and a writer
2:08.2	who knew less than Len Dayton described as a military historian of first rank. Well, I'd concur with
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