Probably not. Also (as noted there), a bomber probably never shot down a V-1.
2 thoughts on “Did A B-24 Shoot Down A V-2?”
I recall hearing a story of an allied aircraft (bomber or fighter I don’t recall) passing over a V-2 launch site at low level just as a V-2 was launched and firing on it causing it to explode. As I recall the story there was supposedly a civilian (Dutch I believe) witness on the ground who corroborated the story later.
At 10000ft a V2 would be going (roughly) M=1, it’d be a heck of a shot from a B24 at 300mph. Though ithe V2 would have started it’s roll from the vertical towards England quite early, so it’d be somewhat paralleling the B24 flight path home and thus decreasing the relative velocities. A gunner might get very lucky….
That said, it’d be a very big deal, unlikely not to be recorded extensively, as the linked article states.
The description of a telephone pole with a fire under it sounds like a pilot description of the SAMs around Hanoi.
I recall hearing a story of an allied aircraft (bomber or fighter I don’t recall) passing over a V-2 launch site at low level just as a V-2 was launched and firing on it causing it to explode. As I recall the story there was supposedly a civilian (Dutch I believe) witness on the ground who corroborated the story later.
At 10000ft a V2 would be going (roughly) M=1, it’d be a heck of a shot from a B24 at 300mph. Though ithe V2 would have started it’s roll from the vertical towards England quite early, so it’d be somewhat paralleling the B24 flight path home and thus decreasing the relative velocities. A gunner might get very lucky….
That said, it’d be a very big deal, unlikely not to be recorded extensively, as the linked article states.
The description of a telephone pole with a fire under it sounds like a pilot description of the SAMs around Hanoi.