Warbird Information Exchange

Hi !

I'd be glad to know how and who did score the downed Buzz Bombs during BoB.

I start:

Tempest V
Spitfire XIV
Mustang III
Mosquito
Gloster Meteor

can you complete the list ?

33 squadrons claimed V-1 kills. How many did AAA score ?


rgds,

Juke

According to J.K. Havener in "The Martin B-26 Marauder", Seymour A. "Buck" Feldman, an American flying with the RAF, flew Typhoons in No. 3 squadron at Manston. He downed 11 V-1s and was decorated by King George VI with the RAF DFC.

Were any of those aircraft available during the Battle of Britain?

I'm sure the UK wished they would have had some Meteors around for the BoB!!!

Sorry guys,

I was in a hurry....during 1943-1944 RAF and Allied used 40% of their recce missions to locate V-1 and V-2 installations and launch sites.

Certainly Battle of Britain took place earlier.

Joseph Berry scored 61+1 ( shared ) flying a Tempest. How many Typhoons were scoring V-1:s any data.

Meteors scored 13
Tempests 650
Spits 300

Know more ?


rgds,

Juke

Typhoon actually did score V-1:s and also shot them down with rockets !!!

Also T-bolts were used in shooting down V-1s:

http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/encycl ... g_bomb.htm

Don't forget the Spit XII drivers of 41 Squadron. They knocked down a decent number of V-1s as well

Image from 41 Squadron Flight Commander Terry Spencer's logbook of a drawing by Tom Slack showing Terry's tipping of a V-1 with his clipped wing XII

And of course F/L Bruce Moffett a Flight Commander with 91 squadron got the first "Diver" in daylight on June 16, 1944 with a Spitfire XIV

Dan

v-1's were later in the war, late 43 onward. none used in the battle of britain.

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tom d. friedman - hey!!! those fokkers were messerschmitts!! * without ammunition, the usaf would be just another flying club!!! * better to have piece of mind than piece of tail!!

Tom,

We agreed this already earlier. Do you have anything to contribute to this thread ?

What planes besides

T-bolt P-47M
Spitfire Mk XIV, IX, XII
Tempest V
Typhoon IIB
Mosquito
Gloster Meteor II ( or V )
Mustang P-51B ( Mustang III )

were used to shoot or tip down these 650 km/h cruising missiles ?

I am pretty close to knowing what is the content of the 158 different "other" types for intercepting the V-1:s...some gaps still remain.

regards,

Juke T

Dan,


Thanks for the awesome drawing !


rgds,

Juke

Hi Juke,

Are you asking because you are researching, or are you asking to see if we know?

Barrage balloons were another (seperate to the Ack Ack) way the V-1 were brought down.

A good book you might like to get is by H E Bates published by Bob Ogden (Froglets) it's something like 'Flying Bombs over Kent (or England)' and was written for the Air Ministry but supressed until found in the 1980s in the Public Record Office.

The Battle of Britain (1940) is as close to the V1 campaign (1944) as Pearl Harbor (1941 IIRC ) is to the Atomic Bombs (About '45, wasn't it? ). What were you thinking BDK?

Had the British Air Ministry supported Frank Whittle properly, it's quite possible that Britain could have defended itself in 1940 with de Havilland Vampires and Gloster Meteors. Of course, had Hitler liked Heinkel, and the RLM not been rather anti-Heinkel, the Germans might have had He280s and Me262s a lot earlier too!

Hope this helps!

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Raven

A Fleet Air Arm Grumman Avenger turret gunner is credited with shooting down a V1 at night! Don't know any more details, that is all it says on my Ghosts 2005 calendar.

Stuart

Thinking about it, that might have been an RAF Avenger not FAA - don't have my calendar to hand to confirm.

Stuart

Hello Raven,

I am trying to help my daddy who is doing a small research yes. He is an AA officer retired.

rgds,

Juke