NEW ROCKET BOMBS

Grey River Argus, 14 August 1944, Page 4

NEW ROCKET BOMBS

GERMAN DIVING DEVICE (Rec. 6.30) LONDON, Aug. 12. The “Daily Mail’s” aviation correspondent, who recently interviewed an Austrian deserter from a German rocket bomb research factory, says that German scientists are working on an automatic diving device for new rocket bombs. The Austrian told him that scientists are trying to apply a photo-electric cell to the. diving device. This cell is sensitive to light. The idea is to use it so that the bomb will dive on a target already illuminated by incendiary bombs dropped by a proceeding plane. LONDON, Aug. 11 The Allies and the Germans are competing in an all-out race against time in the battle of V2—a rocket shell, reported to weight ten tons, which the enemy is frenziedly hurrying to build to launch against London, states the .aviation correspondent of the “Daily Express.” German engineers and scientists are reported to be putting in day and night work to get V2 working within the next few weeks, while the British and American troops are making a full-scale effort to destroy the Wehrmacht in ’France and force Germany’s surrender in time to prevent the rockets being launched.

It is known that the Germans have already produced a great number of rockets, which suggests that they have sites, probably nearing completion, from which to launch them. It is likely that the enemy has at least a half-dozen launching sites. Although the Alked air forces so far are only officially reported to have raided two in France, the remander may be well back in Germany. A specimen of V2 is already reported io have been dropped in Sweden, where it caused devastation over a quarter of a mile, mostly from blast.