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25th November 1944: The worst V2 attack of the war kills 168 when it hits a store crowded with Saturday shoppers

Nov 25, 2024
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The contrail from a V-2 rocket, photographed from B-24 Liberator of the 93rd Bomb Group, 'A V-2 on way to England (probably London) taken Oct- Nov 1944 from over Germany looking toward Holland.'

In Britain the government had taken until 10th November to admit that the "gas main" explosions, that had mysteriously started in September, were the result of e…

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