Book 'V2-VERGELTUNG' from The Hague

Table of contents

• Preface
• Table of contents
• Introduction
• History of the V2 rockets – the development
• Operational use of the V2 rockets
• Consequences of the V2 hits on London and Antwerp
• The launch of V2 rockets from Loosduinen, The Hague and Wassenaar
• Guarding roads and the operations area
• Defence of V2 operations with mobile anti-aircraft guns (FLAK)
• The resistance and the V2
• Allied countermeasures: Operation ‘Market Garden’;
• Allied counter measures: Bombing and air attacks
• The sad balance
• Production of V2 rockets
• Organization of a V2 unit
• Chronological order of the deployment of the V2 in the West of the Netherlands
• Technical data V2 rocket
• V2 rocket technology after the war
• Literature
• Footnotes

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First English edition, Almere – The Hague, August 2005
Translation: Dily Damhuis, Paul Fowlie, Sylvia en Johan van Oosten en Trees Teunissen.
Original Dutch version published, Almere – The Hague, September 2003 (2^nd edition)