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The smouldering body of a boy killed by a
V-2 rocket
attack on the main intersection in
Antwerp
,
Belgium
, November 27, 1944, on the main Allied supply line to the
Netherlands
. The V-2, one of the
German
Vergeltungswaffen
, was the first
ballistic missile
and first man-made object to achieve
sub-orbital spaceflight
. Over 3,000 V-2s were launched as military rockets by the
Wehrmacht
against
Allied
targets in
World War II
.
Photo credit: Ingeldew, T3c,
U.S. Army
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