Originally Posted by
Icare9
Err, I make that about ONE person per V1....
10,492 launched at UK of which 4,261 destroyed en route by fighters, AA and balloons, which leaves approx 6,000 reaching their destination.
Deaths 6,181 from 6,000 V1's = 1 death and 3 wounded (injured more appropriate to non hostile actions in my belief)
You are, of course, quite right.
In mitigation, I plead late night posting, and although it may be true that
in vino veritas, it is definitely a threat to arithmetic.
As you rightly point out, deaths are a poor measure of effectiveness (as well as being distasteful to think about). Perhaps a better measure of the effectiveness of the weapon was the cost of delivering a certain weight of explosives to the target.