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A pair of North American Mustangs from the 1st Scouting Force,
8th Air Force, with P-51 D Chip flown by Merrill Dewey
DuMont in the foreground, detects a German V-2 rocket launch
site near the English Channel in the spring of 1945.
The V-2 units were mobile and could be deployed quickly in open
countryside or city suburbs, they were all heavily defended and
thus hazardous to attack.
The scouts would radio back information on the location, weather
conditions and defences etc. in order to aid allied bombers in
attacking these sites. |
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