Wasserfall EWM

[John Beaman]

Originally Posted by edwest

Hi Nick,


I'm going to stick with the story. If named pilots saw what they saw, I see no reason to make it up. It appears the W5 was the culprit. And reports could just state "destroyed by flak." Bad enough the Germans put the V-1 and V-2 together. A smaller, mobile anti-aircraft rocket would have been as tough as a V-2 to shoot down.



Ed

Ed: I would not put too much credence to what pilots "saw", especially when it came to the more exotic stuff. How many times have we seen pilots report aircraft that were months away from actual use? On top of that, there's always the 102 claims from the first raid on Lille, when only 2 were damaged. Pilots see a lot of things in the air.