V2's

[nellanhoj]

I remember playing in Forest Street, E.7, looking for shrapnel at the time, when a big flash like lightning flashed across the sky. I run home. It turned out to be one of the early V2 silent rockets.  I ran so fast that it was 1951 before Macdonald Bailey broke my 100 yards record in 10.2secs . Those rockets were scary. With the Doodlebugs you at least had a warning and by the time the engine stopped you were halfway home! Where it landed, I can't [or didn't want to] remember.

[beaverfir]

Hi ,I remember seeing the Lord Gough pub in Plaistow hit by a V2 rocket,i was 4 years old and was standing at our front door in Corporation Street with my Mum.From our house you could look straight up Harcourt Road,and the Lord Gough was at the top,i guess about 600 yards away,all i remember is a massive ball of fire.The fanlight over the street door blew in and the flying glass cut Mums head,There was a rag and bone man outside,and i was told that his horse bolted with the cart,that was in 1945 near the end  of the war.I can also remember sitting on top of our air raid shelter seeing the planes fly over for the Victory flypast.

[Rogier]

On several websites they are trying to tye up V2 launches with impacts.  Were you to know when it was, then you could work out where it came from.

Here is one helpful site:

http://www.v2rocket.com/start/deployment/timeline.html

[nellanhoj]

Sorry Roger, seventy years have passed and I haven't a clue. As I said, it was daylight and there was just an eerie flash. It could have travelled miles. Looking at your attached link it could have easily have landed somewhere in Essex, because it looks as though them poor b**gg*rs had there fair share of V2's!!

[harry]

How accurate is the site re the firing and impact points of the V2 rockets,I had alook but cant find any referance to the rocket tha fell on the Gog public house at about twelve oclock on sat 13 january 1945. Regards Harry I.

[biff]

I think from the bomb map on the Newham Story site The Gog was hit by a V1 (Doodlebug)
The nearest V2 impact to The Gog was in PRL near Tree Road.

[harry]

Hi bif ,I think you will find that the Gog was hit by a V1 when a lad in the same class as me was killed , then on January 13th 1945 around 12 oclock Saturday a V2 hit the same area killing a number of people one of which was my mother,Regards Harry.I.

[harry]

P.S there was also a V2 which hit Prince Regents Lane before the Freemasons Road one!!.
Regards Harry.I.

[Bill Sharpe]

Less than four months before the war with Germany ended - what a terrible tragedy for your family Harry - My heart goes out to you.