Hitler’s Vengeance – the V1 Written by Pam Preedy. Question: What is the connection between a wartime event on the outskirts of Downe village and the Apollo moon landings in 1969? By 1943 the tide of war was turning and Germany was on the defensive. On 6th June 1944 the Allies launched their much prepared, but secret, D-Day landings on Normandy beaches. A week later, on the 13th June Germany began sending over the V1 ‘Doodlebugs’ from Northern France. The vergeltungswaffen or vengeance weapon was intended to frighten England into…