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Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 236, 3 July 1944, Page 4

Now that the 11.A.F. and Britain’s anti-aircraft defences are steadily getting the measure of the new German weapon, the flying bomb, less reticence is being displayed concerning the damage suffered since the opening of the enemy's ‘'offensive.'’ Plainly the destructiveness and nuisance effect of the missiles have been considerable. At the outset there was a tendency to look upon the flying bomb as something of a military freak, but to anyone who pondered the practical mentality of the Germans it should have been significant that they were sufficiently convinced of the potential value of their new weapon to sacrifice a substantial part of their aircraft output in order to amass a supply of flying bombs. It would seem today that the enemy’s new form of attack has failed to develop into a serious menace not because the weapon itself has proved ineffective, but because the Allied assault, in Normandy, together with the systematic pounding of launching sites on other stretches of coast, lias prevented the enemy from projecting his bombs in the widespread way he had planned.