My Dutch born mother was in The Netherlands during the war. She had a scar on her forehead and told us young boys it was caused by a V2 rocket. Of course I assumed she meant that the rocket had hit her on the head. Well, not quite!
It seems that the town she was in - Utrecht I think - was used for launching the V2s at night and they were very noisy and so woke everyone up. They could also hear when they went wrong, which a lot of them did. In that case they could land on the civilian areas. That is what happened on this night - the rocket landed 200m down the road and as my mother was trying to dive under the bed the door frame blew in and hit her on the head. Nowhere near as dramatic a story!