Originally Posted by
Pom Pax
This V1 was probably air launched given the lateness in the war March 1945 and its crash site in the fen near Somersham, Cambridgeshire.
All the V-1's that landed in UK after October 1944 were air launched, as all the land based launch sites within range of UK had been overrun by the advancing Allied armies by end of October '44.
My aunt narrowly missed getting killed by the last V-1 to land west of the centre of London, in March '45, when it landed on the ordanance depot in Greenford. Other than singed eyebrows, she was unharmed, while her friend who was standing next to her, turned around and bent down to take cover and ended up with a hot molten piece of shrapnel in her arse. My aunt still laughed at her friends misfortune even when re-telling the story to me a few years before she passed away in 2017.