V2 Rockets and the Polish Underground

vstrode · #1 (**permalink**) June 23rd, 2008, 09:14 PM

My History professor (University of Vienna) told me way back that the
Polish underground had stolen pieces of the V2 and put them on British
bombers that were doing shuffle missions to the USSR. Has anyone else
ever heard of this?

uksubs · #2 (**permalink**) June 23rd, 2008, 09:42 PM

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Originally Posted by vstrode

My History professor (University of Vienna) told me way back that the
Polish underground had stolen pieces of the V2 and put them on British
bombers that were doing shuffle missions to the USSR. Has anyone else
ever heard of this?

They made a film about how the Polish underground helping get a V2 back to the UK , the film called Battle of the V1