The V2 was the most advanced rocket of its time, when it was first launched in 1944, according to the journal Current Swedish Archaeology. However, the purpose of its production was deadly.

V2: Nazi Rocket is an American docu-drama film. The plot gives audiences a deeper insight into the unsettled and vexed state of the German Army during the brutal war-ridden era of World War II.

Launched from mobile units, each V2 rocket was 14 metres (46ft) high and carried a ton (900 kg) of explosives. The first attack on London, on 8 September 1944, gouged a crater 10m (32ft) across ...

On Oct. 3, 1942, Germany did the first-ever successful test launch of a ballistic missile. This missile was officially named Aggregat 4 (A4) but more commonly known as the V-2. The V-2 was ...

Date 2005 Call number TL783.4 .R54 2005 Type Books Physical description 156 p. : ill. (some col.), maps, ports. ; 30 cm Place Germany Data Source Smithsonian Libraries Topic Liquid propellant rockets- ...

The remains of a V2 rocket fired by Nazi Germany at London during World War II have been unearthed in a field in the southeast of England, where it crashed and exploded before reaching its target.

Photo: The launch of a captured German V2 rocket at the US military test site at White Sands, Nevada in 1946 (PhotoQuest/Getty Images) ...

With my sister Pat, I was a witness to one of the first German V2 rocket attacks on London and, with it, one of the many small miracles of WW2. In the autumn of 1944, as a boy of nine, I used to ...

V2 rocket in Essex Bomb disposal unit is currently in Harwich waiting for low tide, which will allow them to carry out further assessments on the V2 missile.