Fieseler Reichenberg Re IV (Fi 103)

WWII US GI Photo - US Captured German Manned V-1 Fieseler Fi 103R Allentown #2 | eBay

Fieseler Fi 103R Reichenberg

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None of the German projects often described as 'suicide missions' from ramming to manned flying bombs to the 'Natter' were intended to actually kill the pilot.

Pilots were to die purely by accident, but with a considerable degree of certainty that it would happen...
 
Pilots were to die purely by accident, but with a considerable degree of certainty that it would happen...

True enough, but the idea that they were intentional suicide missions stems from comments like that written in French on the back of the photograph above (guided/piloted by a 'homme-suicide').

It's probably true that they would have been used. When the SS took control of the Ba 342 project SS General Wolff claimed to have more than 1,000 volunteer 'pilots' who could transfer from the guided V-1 project
 

Fieseler Fi 103R Reichenberg

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