(13) And that was dreadful, because we were bombarded with these doodlebugs and we were instructed during the night. (12) Londoners under attack would come to know it as the doodlebug or buzz bomb, so called for the mechanical hum it made before dropping on its target. (11) Under the van Mr King was holding his head in his hands as a one-metre section of the doodlebug embedded itself in the vehicle. (10) So began London's doodlebug summer, with more than 2000 flying bombs launched from occupied France creating sudden havoc and destruction, especially across the south and east of the city. (9) The device was the notorious doodlebug, or buzz bomb. (8) The doodlebug bomb which hit Harrington Road and destroyed the Albert Tavern on July 9, 1944, was the 78th out of 142 V1s to strike Croydon. (7) ├ö├ç├┐One night we held our breath as a doodlebug putt-putted overhead,├ö├ç├û said Sheila. (6) In the woolly, soft-focused world of Britain's public information business, the answer seems no less obscure than in those hazy, black - and-white days of the doodlebug. (4) He quotes from the diary: ├ö├ç├┐a doodlebug comes over our bus and we all crouch down to avoid the shattering of the window-glass.├ö├ç├û (5) In many ways the crowd at a football match is like a World War Two doodlebug - it's when it stops making a noise that those on the ground should panic.

(3) Its father handed him to Mr King, then a 15-year-old bread delivery boy, after the doodlebug crashed into land behind Old Tye Avenue, Biggin Hill. (2) The doodlebug 's flaming engine cut out and it turned to glide in our direction.

(1) Originally set in a military hospital during the Blitz in 1941, the film relocates the action to a civilian emergency hospital during the doodlebug campaign of 1944.

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