German WW2 Technology Hidden in French Ski Bunkers

The Fieseler Fi 103, is better known as the V-1, its description Vergeltungswaffe is German for vengeance weapon.
The Luftwaffe struggled to carry out heavy bombing raids to London as desired by Adolf Hitler and the idea of a unmanned mass producible and launchable flying bomb was irresistible to the Fuhrer.
One of the problems with the V1 was the fact that it could not take off under its own power and so needed a piston driven steam catapult angled launch pad to hurl it out in the right direction with enough velocity to allow the on-board engine to take over and keep it in flight. The guidance system was very simple, based around a gyrocompass, stabilisers and a fixed amount of fuel. The catapult sent the V-1 off in the required general direction and the gyrocompass then took over, the stabilisers kept it flying level and when the fuel ran out, it dropped.

To help conceal its purpose the V-1 was officially named as an anti-aircraft apparatus (FZG) and the regiment of the Luftwaffe created to use them was designated Flakregiment 155 (W) (Flak being the abbreviation for an anti-aircraft gun and thus the reason for allied pilots having to: Take Flak)

The V-1 rockets were built by Volkswagen at their factory near Hamburg, which is ironic as we went to this site in a VW Passat!!

Today we are at Ligescourt near Crécy

The Tödt Organisation used 40,000 workers in northern France to build the heavy launch bases. Nobody was allowed to work in their own village,
The Heavy bases followed a very similar design allowing missiles to be brought in, stocked, prepared and launched from a rail and trolly system.

The linking roadways between the bunkers were created using concrete slabs and the buildings for the most part were constructed with breeze blocks, which dispensed with the need to provide a casing for poured concrete.

The French resistance reported the unusual looking structures and the RAF flew a reconnaissance sortie on 3rd November 1943.
The observers noted a number of bunkers which they described as : ski-shaped buildings at 80 metres long by over 4 metres high and wide they have a curved end for blast protection. From the air they look like skis lying on their sides.

The design is so distinctive that the RAF very quickly identified over 70 other such sites and Operation Crossbow was commenced in order to bomb them.
These missions were named : No-Ball Missions, and the very first was launched against the installations at Ligescourt by B-26 bombers of the USAF on 5th December 1943.

The continual bombing of this and similar heavy V1 sites continued until their capture after D Day

Chapters:

0:00 Volkswagen
1:50 entrée
4:50 Ski bunker
16:00 HQ Building
20:54 Final Assembly Building
23:00 Water Pumping Building
27:50 Launcher and Catapult


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