article_snippet: Deadly: A V-2 rocket launched in Germany from a fixed site in the summer of 1943 .
article_snippet: The V-2 rockets - the V standing for Vergeltungswaffe, or Vengeance Weapon - were fired at London and the south east of England, as well as targets on mainland Europe, killing over 7,000 people.
article_snippet: The warheads were launched in the final months of the war as Britain advanced closer to victory and were considered Hitler's last role of the dice.
article_snippet: The V-2 rockets - the V standing for Vergeltungswaffe, or Vengeance Weapon - were fired at London and the south east of Englandthe south east of EnglandEngland, as well as targets on mainland Europe, killing over 7,000 people .
article_snippet: On Wednesday, Chiswick Auctions spokesman Richard Westwood-Brookes said: 'The V-2 was the first truly ballistic missile which might have brought victory to Hitler had
article_snippet: The V-2 was the first real ballistic missile.
article_snippet: V-2 effects were devastating.
article_snippet: Powerful: The first V-2 attack on Britain hit Chiswick in London in September 1944 and left a gigantic crater . '
article_snippet: They were fired against the Allies with missiles claiming thousands of lives in London, Antwerp and Liege.
article_snippet: A V-2 rocket attack left this block of flats in Limehouse, London, in ruins . '
article_snippet: The V-2 was the most advanced weapon used in the war until the US dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945.
article_snippet: The V-2s were also Hitler's answer to The V-2s country's disappointment that the V1s (or doodlebugs) didn't knock Britain out of the war.
article_snippet: the V1s (or doodlebugs) were launched vertically and could travel at 3,335mph to hit targets more than 200 miles away, making it the world's first long-range combat-ballistic missile.
highlights_snippet: V-2 rockets were a final throw of the dice at the end of the war for Hitler .