On Christmas Eve 1944, disaster struck Kalken when a V1 bomb hit the Vaart canal in Kalken at 4 pm.
With a new batch of wonder weapons, the so-called "Vergeltungswaffen", the Germans wanted to turn the tide at the end of World War II. They developed the unmanned V1 aircraft, the V2 rocket and the V3 super cannon.
On Christmas Eve 1944, disaster struck Kalken when a V1 bomb hit the Vaart canal in Kalken at 4 pm.
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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