Thread: NAZI V2 Rocket in Sydney.

Originally Posted by DeeJay

I believe they used the skeletons of most of them as playground equipment. I used to play in one in Box Hill as a kid after WW2.

While very indirectly patterned after the V-2, these playground rockets have no other connection to them. My sons in their preteens enjoyed climbing up the outside of them, much to their mother's distress!

John

Originally Posted by JDNSW

While very indirectly patterned after the V-2, these playground rockets have no other connection to them. My sons in their preteens enjoyed climbing up the outside of them, much to their mother's distress!

John

No No John -- you mean to tell me my father was kidding me all those years ago ??

Originally Posted by DeeJay

No No John -- you mean to tell me my father was kidding me all those years ago ??

Father knows best!

I remember my father telling me he and mum used to do ice ballet and I believed them. How dissillusioned was I when I found out it wasn't true.

Originally Posted by Lotz-A-Landies

Just being pedantic but the doodlebug was the V1 "Buzz bomb"

I actually knew that, but the chance of the pun was too tempting! The V1 was launched from France, aimed at London and simply flew until it ran out of fuel. as long as the poor blighters below could hear it it was OK! They were very effective as our fastest fighters could only attempt an interception but never really had much chance at hitting them as they were so fast. The later V2 were the first ballistic rockets they went briefly into orbit and made no noise on re-entry. 1 second a neighborhood was there, the next it was obliterated, no sirens or warning of any sort, I'm not sure that many were deployed as they were developed quite late on in the war. Interesting stuff!

Originally Posted by snowbound

I actually knew that, but the chance of the pun was too tempting! The V1 was launched from France, aimed at London and simply flew until it ran out of fuel. as long as the poor blighters below could hear it it was OK! They were very effective as our fastest fighters could only attempt an interception but never really had much chance at hitting them as they were so fast. The later V2 were the first ballistic rockets they went briefly into orbit and made no noise on re-entry. 1 second a neighborhood was there, the next it was obliterated, no sirens or warning of any sort, I'm not sure that many were deployed as they were developed quite late on in the war. Interesting stuff!

It is indeed very interesting stuff.
As an Englishman, I have known lots of people who experienced the V1 & V2......anyone living in London during WW11 would know all about them..my mother in law's family home was obliterated by a V1...and yes, when ya couldn't hear them....you had a problem.
As a little boy growing up in England after the war, we knew all about V1s & V2s, Focke Wolf 190s, Messchersmitt 109s, Spitfires, Hurricanes, Lancasters etc.
Interesting to note that the designer of the V2, Werner Von Braun, along with his team, after surrendering to the Americans, went to the U.S., and put the Americans on the moon.
Some of the German scientists are still around...one was extradited to Germany very recently, on a charge of using slave labour during WW11.
Cheers, Pickles.

It always gets me that the Europeans are still chasing down supposed NAZIs.

If these scientists are still around today, they would have been very young, very junior scientists in WWII and in positions where they just did what their supervisors told them to do, to not do it would have been treason with imprisonment or execution as the result.

The architect and NAZI Armaments Minister, Albert Speer was in charge of production and the one responsible for the slave workers. Even he only did a few years in prison before he was released and spent his retirement in New Guniea.

How many of you have a Hugo Boss suit? He was the tailor to the NAZIs, designed the SS Uniform, made uniforms for all the German services and used slave labour to do it.

I'm pretty sure I have a pic of one that I took at the AWM in the late 60s or early 70s.

Hi Ron

It appears that it would have been about that time the pics were taken (B&W images), but the relocation was to an outdoor site which looked like a public Park, no buildings.

Perhaps if it's the same one it moved twice.

Diana