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The Germans develop the V Weapon
Throughout the war, the Nazis were developing missiles at Peenemunde, their research centre on the Baltic coast of Germany. By 1942 they had successfully test-launched a flying bomb (the V-1) and a supersonic missile (the V-2). Hitler believed these ‘vengeance’ weapons would win him the war.