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4th August 1944: First Allied jet pilot to achieve a combat victory by ‘tipping’ a V-1 doodlebug

  • 4th August 2017
  • Tagged as: Aircraft, Blitz, Britain, Germany, Kent, London, Nazi, RAF, Science, Second World War, Technology, V-1

RAF Flight Officer T. D. Dean became the first Allied jet pilot to achieve a combat victory when he ‘tipped’ a Nazi German V-1 ‘doodlebug’ flying bomb with his Gloster Meteor jet fighter.

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