The first Cruise Missile.
German WW2 V1 .

We went to a WW2 museum today. It’s not for away being at Malton in Yorkshire. Considering all but me were female it all went well. The sun shone but that brought out the wasps in droves to annoy everyone who was eating. When the sun went behind the clouds it was cool and the cardigans were put on. As all children are on their summer holidays it seemed that half of them had decided to descend on the place. Queues were the norm so everything took a long time as we shuffled through the 28 huts of displays. On top of that the younger granddaughters were a bit afraid of the atmosphere in some huts so wouldn’t go through; darkness, loud noises or smoke put them off it.
As I looked at the V1 Cruise Missile and the photographs of the V2 rockets that went into space before re-entry I am amazed we won the war. The Germans were so far in front of the rest of the world that they should have won. It seems it’s down to Hitler’s madness that they didn’t. He threw an army away at Leningrad and took other decisions against the advice of his generals and wasted it all. My dad, a WW2 veteran, said that until D-Day the German Soldier was the best the world had ever seen. No one had beaten him and to pretend otherwise was delusional.
Anyway. as is usually the case the kids got fed up with it after a couple of hours and wanted to go somewhere else. We took them home and put the TV on.
At least I feel that I have done my duty as a granddad 🙂

WW2 Russian Tank