Churchill on the V1: Praise for Ingenuity, Horror over Effects
Excerpted from a Q&A post on the V1 for the Hillsdale College Churchill Project. For the unabridged article, please click here.
Robert Lusser and the V1 “Flying Bomb”A journalist writes about the life of her grandfather, Robert Lusser, chief designer of the V1 flying bomb. She searched for what Churchill said about the V1 in his memoirs of the Second World War. “He mentions the weapon’s destruction in 1944 but nothing of what he thought of the V1 militarily. My grandfather’s papers suggest that Churchill praised the weapon after the war.…
