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The Totally Out Of Control B-17 Guided Bombs – One Hit Sweden, Another Nearly Took Out Ipswich

Edit World History Online 19 Dec 2015
After completing 80 323rd missions, Aphrodite B-17F (The Careful Virgin) was used against Mimoyecques, but impacted short of target due to controller error. The plan was to use bombers as remote control precision-guided munitions against bunkers and other reinforced enemy facilities ... Codenames. Apohrodite for the Army and Anvil for the Navy ... None of the missions was a success, of the failures these two stand out ... The Idea ... In the U.S ... ....

Building Hitler’s Supergun: The Plot To Destroy London And Why It Failed

Edit IFL Science 23 Nov 2015
The idea was to crash the unmanned aircraft directly into the site at Mimoyecques, near Calais ... Unknown to the allies at the time, the complex at Mimoyecques had been abandoned after it was successfully destroyed in a bombing raid on July 6 1944 ... at Mimoyecques would have been destroyed one way or another before it could do much damage to London....

Opinion: Building Hitler’s supergun: the plot to destroy London and why it failed (University of ...

Edit Public Technologies 23 Nov 2015
The idea was to crash the unmanned aircraft directly into the site at Mimoyecques, near Calais ... Unknown to the allies at the time, the complex at Mimoyecques had been abandoned after it was successfully destroyed in a bombing raid on July 6 1944 ... at Mimoyecques would have been destroyed one way or another before it could do much damage to London....

10 Most Chilling Nazi Super Weapons That Hitler Could Have Used To Win WWII

Edit World History Online 19 Oct 2015
Arthur C ... The German plan was to use 50 Vergeltungswaffe 3 superguns (called the V-3s) to bombard London from two huge underground bunkers near Mimoyecques in northern France, with the first base’s full arsenal of 25 gun tubes commencing firing in October 1944 ... Had the Mimoyecques guns gone into action in 1944, the Nazis would have been in a position to get more and larger ammunition to the guns ... ....

The Secret Nazi V-3 Super Gun – By Robby Houben

Edit World History Online 14 Oct 2015
The V-3 gun, or Vergeltungswaffe 3 was one of Germany’s wonder weapons developed to change the aggravating tide of war. This Nazi supergun was designed for long distance bombardments ... The 310 lb shell intended for the V-3 gunThe V-3 site at Mimoyecques. Construction of the V-3 site at Mimoyecques started in September 1943 at a limestone hill in the Calais region, close to other future V-1 and V-2 rocket launching sites ... ....

Pas de Calais beyond the headlines

Edit The Independent 03 Sep 2015
It’s the longest day of the year and I’m 20 metres underground. The air is damp and the jagged walls are clammy. Tunnels veer off into the darkness and shadows flicker. This is the Wellington Quarry, just outside the town of Arras in Pas de Calais. In 1917, it was home to 24,000 British First World War soldiers in the week leading up to the Battle of Arras ... 4,000 men were lost in the battle ... Wimereux ... V3 base, Mimoyecques (mimoyecques.com)....

The 5 most bizarre weapons of World War II

Edit Business Insider 23 Jul 2015
Unfortunately, war can drive innovation. During World War II, the world's major powers set their sites on advancing technology, medicine, and communications in order to be efficient and fearsome in battle ... 1 ... 2 ... 3 ... 4 ... A series of secondary charges positioned along the 416-foot barrel were meant to speed up the projectile, which would hypothetically be able to reach London from well over 100 miles away in the French town of Mimoyecques ... 5 ... ....
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