© Copyright of content contributed to this Archive rests with the author. If it landed on you, you would not have heard it - you would be dead anyway. It was much bigger than a doodlebug and was more dangerous but it was not as scary as the doodlebug because it was so fast that you never saw it or heard it - until it landed with a loud 'whomf' noise. The V2 was like a modern ballistic missile. In September 1944, the Germans started sending V2 rockets to London. If the engine stopped before it got to us that was the time to worry! Sometimes a doodlebug dropped to earth immediately and sometimes it would continue to glide, gradually losing height. Whenever we heard a doodlebug everyone looked up and followed it with their eyes until it had gone over past where we were standing.

Then they simply fell to the ground and exploded. They kept flying until they ran out of fuel. We also share information about the use of the site with our social media, advertising and analytics partners. Educalingo cookies are used to personalize ads and get web traffic statistics. They made a sound like a lorry engine going very fast. Synonyms for doodlebug and translation of doodlebug to 25 languages. Thousands of these doodlebugs were launched against London.

It looked like a small aeroplane and had no pilot - a bit like a cruise missile, but slightly bigger.

A doodlebug was really a bomb with wings. In June 1944, the Germans started sending V1 Flying bombs to bomb London.

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