V1 Site At Val Ygot

The site is about 20km SSE of Dieppe, in a forest surrounded by farmland. Perhaps a dozen site structures remain after the Allied bombings that occurred in 1944. No V1s were launched from this site, although it was merely one of more than a hundred in the Seine-Maritime. That so many were identified and destroyed is due to the French Resistance, and particularly one Joseph Brocard, who identified more than 100 V1 sites in France, traversed the Swiss border some 98 times, was betrayed finally and sent to a concentration camp, but survived to receive the highest military honors of both Britain and France. This is the only V1 site preserved in France. In 1944, hundreds of V1s rained down on London and environs, killing some 6,000 and injuring nearly 20,000. When the sites in France and Belgium were liberated, Hitler aimed his remaining V1s, some 3,000 of them, on Antwerp and its harbor, now in the hands of the Allies. The V1 was a pilotless flying bomb, range under 200 miles, merely pointed at its "target," and lauched either from a plane or on a catapault, as here. The bomb fell when it ran out of fuel. Truly a terror weapon.

It's a well-signed site, full of information in French, English,
and German 

V1 sites in the Seine-Maritime

Stay on the paths...this area has been bombed

Thus

In memory of the prisoners and forced labor who built these sites

And the victims

Depiction of Bristol Beaus bombing V1 sites

Some of the buildings remain

The "amagnetic" building, where the missiles were "aimed"

Launch control

Cut-away; the first cruise missile

Pointed right at London

Thus

Thus

And thus; we spent a quiet night in the parking lot near this
dismal place