Hauts-de-France
During the Second World War, the German Air Force developed an unmanned flying bomb, the V1 (Vergeltungswaffe).
V1-monument
On Christmas Eve 1944, disaster struck Kalken when a V1 bomb hit the Vaart canal in Kalken at 4 pm.
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In 2005, the concrete launch pad of a German V1 launch base from the Second World War was found in the Vrijbos in Houthulst.
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