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Old 1st Jul 2019, 06:19
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El Bunto
 
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The USA continued to work on air-launching ( literal ) copies of the V-1, built by Willys as the JB-2 Loon and dropped from B-17s in tests. Tens of thousands were planned for the invasion of Japan, to be air-launched and also rocket-launched from decks of submarines.

Of course orders were slashed after VJ-Day but those that were built continued as testbeds until the 1950s.
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