The V-2 Rocket Attacks: Londoners Heard No Plane, No Warning...Then A Supersonic Rocket Exploded

September 8, 1944. A massive explosion ripped through Chiswick, West London—but nobody heard it coming. No air raid siren. No plane engine. No warning at all. For the first time in history, a city was under attack from a weapon that traveled faster than sound itself: Nazi Germany's V-2 ballistic missile.
This is the terrifying true story of Hitler's vengeance weapon that struck at over 3,500 mph—five times the speed of sound—killing 2,754 British civilians before they could hear it approaching. Discover how Londoners survived the world's first ballistic missile attacks, why the explosions arrived before their own sound, and the shocking human cost of developing this revolutionary weapon.
The V-2 represented a quantum leap in military technology—standing 46 feet tall, reaching speeds of Mach 4.7, and delivering 2,200 pounds of explosives from 50 miles in space. But here's the darkest secret: more people died building these rockets (20,000 slave laborers) than were killed by them.
From Wernher von Braun's development at Peenemünde to Operation Paperclip's controversial recruitment of Nazi scientists, this documentary reveals the complete story of the weapon that changed warfare forever.

Based on extensive historical research including:
British War Cabinet records
Survivor testimonies and eyewitness accounts
Declassified intelligence reports
Technical specifications from captured V-2 components
Post-war interrogations of German scientists

Key Topics Covered:
The first V-2 attack on Chiswick (September 8, 1944)
How the rocket traveled faster than its own sound
The deadliest single V-2 strike: Woolworths disaster (168 killed)
The horrifying truth about V-2 production and slave labor
Why Hermann Göring dismissed then feared American production
How V-2 technology led directly to the Space Race
The psychological terror of undetectable supersonic weapons

If you're fascinated by WWII history, military technology, and the untold stories of the war's most devastating weapons, this is essential viewing.
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