The German V-weapons have been the subject of numerous books and studies and this bibliography is by no means exhaustive. The Hautefeuille book is by far the most thorough study of the heavy V-weapons sites while the Delefosse book is the most thorough study of the V-1 and includes very detailed drawings and photographs of the many types of buildings associated with the launch sites. Three of the books provide an especially detailed regional survey of V-1 launch sites: Bailleul (Picardie, Artois, Flanders); Grenneville (Normandy); and Gückelhorn/Paul (Germany). The articles listed here are those with a special focus on the launch sites. Those in After the Battle magazine are especially helpful for anyone planning to visit the sites. The Operation Backfire report is a multi-volume study completed after British forces conducted experimental V-2 launches with the assistance of former German missile troops in 1946 and provides an extremely detailed look at the process of preparing and firing a V-2 missile as well as a considerable amount of detail on the equipment and organization of German ballistic missile units.
There are numerous wartime intelligence reports on the V-1 and the author referred to collections at the US National Archives, US Army Military History Institute, and the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum. An exceptional resource on the V-2 is the V-2 Rocket Internet site (www.v2rocket.com).
Handbook on Guided Missiles: Germany and Japan (US War Department, 1946)
Investigation of the Heavy Crossbow Installations in Northern France (3 volumes, Sanders Mission, Crossbow Committee, 1945)
Helfers, Lt. Col. M., The Employment of V-Weapons by the Germans During World War II (US Department of the Army)
Kriegstagebuch Flak Regiment 155 (W) (English Translation in Imperial War Museum, London)
Report on Operation Backfire, (three volumes, The War Office, London, 1946)
Walter, Gen. Eugen, V-Weapon Tactics (LXV Corps) (US Army Foreign Military Studies B-689, 1947)
V-Weapons (Crossbow) Campaign (US Strategic Bombing Survey, 1945)
Ehmke, Axel, “V1 Endfertigungs-Lager und Abschußanlage in Brécourt,” DAWA-Nachrichten, No. 30, 1997, pp. 29–41
Ehmke, Axel, “Wasserwerk Nardouet- Planungen für ein V1 Abschußanlage,” DAWA-Nachrichten, No. 32, 1998, pp. 33–36
Garbe, Horst, “V-Waffen im Rheinland,” DAWA-Nachrichten, No. 23/24, 1994, pp. 11–16
Held, Michael, and Lippmann, Harry, “V1- Abschußrampe nordlich Kuchem/Sieg,” DAWA-Nachrichten, No. 27, 1996, pp. 9–12
Heitmann, Jan, “The Peenemünde Rocket Centre,” After the Battle, No. 74, 1991, pp. 1–25
Magry, Karel, “Nordhausen,” After the Battle, No. 101, 1998, pp. 2–43
Pallud, Jean-Paul, “HDP: Le bunker de Mimoyecques,” ’39/45 Magazine, January 2003, pp. 44–58; May 2003, pp. 44–53
Pallud, Jean-Paul, “La Rheinbote ou V-4,” ’39-45 Magazine, April 2004, pp. 40–52
Pallud, Jean-Paul, “The Secret Weapons: V3 and V4,” After the Battle, No. 114, 2001, pp. 3–27
Speth, Ronald, “Visiting the Mittelwerk: Past and Present,” Spaceflight, Vol. 42, March 2000, pp. 113–19
Thiele, Olive, “Unternehmen Rumpelkammer: Eine Chronik der V-1 Abwurfe aus der Luft,” Flugzeuge, No. 1, 1988, pp. 36–42
“The V-Weapons,” After the Battle, No. 6, 1974, pp. 2–41
Bailleul, Laurence, Les Sites V1 en Flandres et en Artois (Self-published, 2000)
Bailleul, Laurence, Les Sites V1 en Picardie (Self-published, 2006)
Cuich, Myrone, Armes Secrete et Ouvrages Mysterieux de Dunkerque a Cherbourg (Tourcoing, 1984)
Darlow, Steve, Sledgehammers for Tintacks: Bomber Command Combats the V-1 Menace 1943–44 (Grub Street, 2002)
Delefosse, Yannick, V1-Arme du désespoir (Lela Presse, 2006)
Dornberger, Walter, V-2 (Viking, 1954)
Ducellier, Jean-Pierre, La guerre aerienne dans le nord de la France: 24 Juin 1944, V-1 Arme de Représailles no. 1 (Doullens, 2003)
Dufour, Norbert, and Doré, Christian, L’enfer des V-1 en Seine-Maritime durant la Seconde Guerre Mondiale (Ed. Bertout, 1993)
Dungan, T. D., V-2: A Combat History of the First Ballistic Missile (Westholme, 2005)
Glass, A., et. al, Wywiad Armii Krajowej w walce z V-1 i V-2 (Mirage, 2000)
Grailet, Lambert, Liège sous les V-1 et V-2 (self-published, 1996)
Grailet, Lambert, Le V-3 harcèle Luxembourg (self-published, 1996)
Grenneville, Regis, Les Armes Secrètes Allemandes: Les V1 (Heimdal, 1984)
Gruen, Adam, Preemptive Defense: Allied Air Power Versus Hitler’s V-Weapons 1943–45 (USAF, 1998)
Gückelhorn, Wolgang, and Detlev, Paul, V1-Eifelschreck (Helios, 2004)
Hautefeuille, Roland, Constructions Speciales (Tourcoing, 1995)
Hellmold, Wilhelm, Die V1: Eine Dokumentation (Bechtermünz Verlag, 1999)
Henshall, P., Hitler’s V-Weapons Sites (Sutton, 2002)
Hölsken, D., V-Missiles of the Third Reich (Monogram, 1994)
Irving, D., The Mare’s Nest (Wm. Kimber, 1964)
Kennedy, G., Vengeance Weapon 2 (Smithsonian, 1983; Shiffer reprint, 2006)
Klee, E., and Merk O., The Birth of the Missile (Harrap, 1965)
Laskowski, Piotr, Niemieckie tajne bronie na wyspach Wolin i Uznam (Maagdruk, 1999)
McGovern, J., Crossbow and Overcast (Wm. Morrow, 1964)
Thompson, Peter, V3: The Pump Gun (ISO Publications, 1999)
Verbeek, J. R., V2-Vergeltung: From The Hague and its Environs (V2 Platform Foundation, 2005)
Young, Richard A., The Flying Bomb (Ian Allen, 1978)