Fieseler Fi 103R (Reichenberg) - Softcover

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Fieseler Fi 103R (Reichenberg) was a late-World War II German manned version of the V-1 flying bomb (more correctly known as the Fieseler Fi 103) produced for missions which were to be carried out by the "Leonidas Squadron", Group V of the Luftwaffe's Kampfgeschwader 200.The Leonidas Squadron, part of KG 200, had been set up as a suicide squadron. Volunteers were required to sign a declaration which said, "I hereby voluntarily apply to be enrolled in the suicide group as part of a human glider-bomb. I fully understand that employment in this capacity will entail my own death."Initially, both the Messerschmitt Me 328 and the Fieseler Fi 103 (better known as the V-1 flying bomb) were considered as suitable aircraft, but the Fi 103 was passed over in favour of the Me 328 equipped with a 900 kilograms (2,000 lb) bomb.However, problems were experienced in converting the Me 328 and Heinrich Himmler wanted to cancel the project.

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