Admin Announcements Archives - WWII V2 Rocket Attacks

V2 Memorial Plaque Unveiling / Incident 154

Oct 122020

You may be interested to know that a memorial plaque is to be unveiled on 5 November 2020 to commemorate the victims and injured of the first V2 rocket to explode in Islington, north London.

Due to distancing and Covid restrictions the ceremony will be online and feature film of the unveiling a few hours earlier. Places to view the unveiling and presentation can be booked at
Eventbrite (search for V2 Rocket or copy and paste link):
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/memorial-plaque-to-the-victims-of-the-v2-rocket-attack-at-archway-nov1944-tickets-124522501153?aff=erelexpmlt

An accompanying blog article \’Hitler\’s Guy Fawkes Day Surprise\’ is also available at:
https://friendsofim.com/2020/10/12/hitlers-guy-fawkes-day-surprise-the-archway-v2-rocket-attack-1944/

Many thanks and kind regards,

Mark Aston
Islington Museum

Filterable List Added

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Jan 202020

We have now included a filterable list of all the recorded V2 incidents here.

You can quickly filter the list by adding either a place name or perhaps a date (format dd-mm-yyyy) to obtain a list of incidents matching your criteria.

Latest Contributions

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Jun 082019

We are pleased to point out that our “Your Stories” section has had 3 new contributions in the past week:

Visitor Contributions Added

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Jan 012019

We are happy to include a new section of articles submitted by visitors to our site. In most cases they are descriptions of individual events described by survivors and or witnesses to the actual event.

To every contributor we send our sincere thanks and eternal gratitude.

Civilians Killed By V2 Rockets

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May 172015

We have (we hope) managed to extract most of the names from the Civilian War Dead Register of civilians killed in all of the V2 Strikes we have recorded on this site here.

Of course we accept that we may have made some errors and omissions for which we apologize in advance and we would be most grateful for any amendments and comments.

Update Maps Technical Problems

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Dec 092013

Update – The technical problems with the V2 Strikes Maps have now been resolved.

Maps Now Complete

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Nov 152012

We have now completed the plots for all V2 incidents. We offer a map for each of the months of the campaign (September 1944 to March 1945) and a combined map that includes all incidents. Once again we stress that the locations of the strikes are a conversion of the war time map references and unless we have missed transcribed the original map reference and/or made an error in completing the conversion form on FieldenMaps.info or used the wrong co-ordinates from the conversion, then we can not amend any plot. We do not doubt that at least some of the map references quoted in the original documents may be wrong and we welcome your comments on any errors contained in the original records.

The maps can be found here:

Changes to Maps

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Oct 202012

All plots of V2 strikes on the maps are direct conversions of the map references quoted in the “Big Ben”: Enemy long range rockets: list of incidents, September 1944 to March 1945 documents using the Co-ordinate Converter webpage at FieldenMaps.

Maps of V2 Strikes

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Oct 032012

We have started to publish maps of V2 strikes starting with those that occured in September 1944 which can be found here.

PLEA FOR YOUR STORIES.

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Sep 082012

We believe that as the number of people who lived through the terrifying V2 Rocket campaign this site is concerned with diminishes relentlessly then it necessarily follows that the pool of knowledge of these events also diminishes.

Although you may be reluctant to revisit events you have probably spent the best part of your life trying to forget, it is our hope that you will enable us to transform this site into more than just a bland list of official reports by sharing your stories.

The easiest method is to complete one of the comment forms available on most pages. Your e-mail address will definitely NOT be available to anyone other than the administrator of the site.

For longer contributions/articles please consider our Your Stories Pages

We have, after an increasing number of requests, added a section for V1 and other WW2 memories

You are also welcome to use our CONTACT FORM if you wish.

Please note

All of the information we have on ALL of the V2 incidents is included on our site.

We are more than happy to help if you are having trouble in finding any specific incident.

We cannot and do not offer any research services.

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