There are same things in this presentation that I didn't know which makes it very interesting. I wasn't even aware of a V-3 super-gun program. This really was some gun. It was pointed directly to London and that was the target. It had five shafts, with five barrels in each shaft. That would have been 25 barrels hurling projectiles towards London. The effect could have been devastating. The guns did not rely on just one explosion but a series of explosions to hurl the shell. They had a cannon that could reach England, but not London. In a big way, Hitler was relying on this weapon to turn the war. After the Allies discover the existence of the bunkers, with a barrel, they set on a bombing program, which was not effective. Two other programs were devised, one by England and the other by The United States. The United State program involved the first use of a drone. The drone used early television and remote control. It required a pilot and copilot to take off, and get the plane in motion. Joe Kennedy, the brother of John Kennedy was the pilot. His father Joe Sr. had groomed him to be the first Catholic President. The English plan involved the first use of buster busting bombs. This attack actually took place a month before the American attack. The aerial photos after the attack showed that there were big holes in the bunker, but no one could see inside the bunker. SO the American plan went through. However there was a fault with the remote arming devise in the American plane that caused it to explode prematurely. Joe Kennedy and his copilot were lost. When the Allies finally reached the area where the bunker was located, the discovered that the buster bunker bombs had caused irreparable damage.
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