V-2

Or V-two

[vee-too]

noun

plural

V-2's 

1. a liquid-fueled rocket used as a ballistic missile by the Germans, mainly against London, late in World War II.

V-2

noun

1. a rocket-powered ballistic missile invented by the Germans in World War II: used esp to bombard London. It used ethanol as fuel and liquid oxygen as the oxidizer

Word History and Origins

Origin of V-2¹

see _V-1

Example Sentences

The OT’s Jewish victims, like their non-Jewish counterparts, were forced to work on everything from underground armaments factories to V-2 rockets and even a railroad above the Arctic Circle in Norway.

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Von Braun oversaw the German army’s rocket program, culminating in the development of the world’s first guided long-range ballistic missile: the V-2.

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During World War II, he oversaw the construction of the V-2 missiles that bombarded England.

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In February 1944, Litherland was co-piloting a B-17F Flying Fortress that was struck by anti-aircraft fire after a bombing raid on a German V-2 rocket site in Bois-Coquerel, France.

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Von Braun, who supervised the V-2 weapon program for the Third Reich and once calculated the number of slave laborers needed for more efficient production of the system, went on to supervise America’s Saturn V moon rocket.

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