Sep 6 1944

From The Space Library

Navy awarded contract to McDonnell Aircraft for development of the Gargoyle or LBD-1, a radio-controlled- low-wing gliding bomb fitted with a rocket booster and designed for use with carrier-based aircraft.

Two V-2 missiles were fired toward Paris, of which one arrived there. Some reports indicate the first V-2 hit London some hours later on the same day, while other reports mark September 8 as the first attack against London. From this time until March 1945 when the launching sites were overrun by the Allies, something like 1,027 were fired from the vicinity of The Hague, with 92.3 percent launched successfully. Of the total number fired from all sites toward Britain, there were about 1,300 fired at London and 40 at Norwich. Some 518 fell in the London Civil Defense Region, and none at Norwich. The results in London were 2,511 persons killed and 5,869 seriously wounded, and elsewhere 213 killed and 598 seriously wounded.