From ERNEST SPRATT
Few in London had an inkling as to how good our defences against V-1s
were (‘The V-1 menace: secret weapons that saved Britain’, 4 June). I was
in London during the war and a V-1 landed in a road 60 yards from our shelter,
leaving a crater, 30 feet wide and 15 feet deep. The houses around were
just piles of rubble.
One day a V-2 landed 300 yards away. After the bang there was a loud
rushing sound for several seconds. The Imperial War Museum says the rocket
may have broken up on descending, the after sound being the casing coming
down. Do any Â鶹´«Ã½ readers know if you can hear a supersonic missile
arriving, after it has arrived? I have puzzled over this for 50 years.
Ernest Spratt Hayling Island, Hampshire
