Comedian Mort Sahl suggested a subtitle: But Sometimes I Hit London ... when the V-2 was deployed on mobile launchers. Museum officials in the 1970s wanted to underscore the rocket’s place ...

As Afghanistan descended into Civil War during the late 1980s and early 1990s, thousands of SCUDs were used to combat factions vying for power over the mountainous, rugged land. It is somewhat jarring ...

About 12,000 Jewish workers were assembled for the missile factory and testing. The world’s first cruise missile factory was ...

More than 2,400 struck London, killing more than 6,100 people ... which displays a captured V-1 flying bomb as well as a V-2 rocket. (The National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C. also ...

4 Rocket. Seeing Wehrmacht soldiers preparing a V-2 rocket as if it was about to be sent screaming towards London at Mach 4 is bit like watching captured Islamic State fighters demonstrate the ...

As Europe marks Victory Day over Nazi Germany, Londoner John Goldsmith still remembers the rationing, the blackouts and the bombs that devastated his neighborhood in east London ...

The new leader of the Catholic Church will inherit a financial mess that Pope Francis spent much of his reign trying to fix V-2 rocket launched from New Mexico in 1948 captured first photo of ...

Walter Dornberger (Bundesarchiv, Bild 146-1980-009-33 / CC-BY-SA 3.0) This is the world in which V-2, written by the head of the German rocket development program Walter Dornberger, takes place.

The last V-2 to hit London destroyed an apartment building less than two miles from his home on March 27, 1945. Eighty years later, Goldsmith holds back tears when he remembers the moment he heard ...