North Weald was in at the beginning and end of the V-1 campaign:
On 16 June 1944 the USAAF base at Boreham reported that an ‘unusual missile’ had come down near that airfield. F/Lt Cripwell from 6210 Bomb Disposal Flight at RAF North Weald took a squad of men to investigate. Several pieces of debris were collected and taken to Boreham for examination by intelligence officers. This V-1 impact was only three days after the first launch in operational service.
A V-1 Flying Bomb was shot down by F/Lt Jimmie Shottick of 501 Squadron flying a Hawker Tempest V out of Hunsdon on 26 March 1945. It was the final V-1 destroyed by Fighter Command and crashed to earth near North Weald. It had been released from a Heinkel He 111 bomber over the North Sea.