🇺🇸 🇩🇪 An American court house in Putnam County, Indiana has an authentic captured V-1 rocket for display, serving as a memorial. It is 1 of only 2 captured V-1 rockets in the entire country.

The 'V' stood for Vergeltungswaffe, which means "vengeance weapon." Between June 1944 and March 29, 1945, a total of 9,251 V1 flying bombs were launched against England with only 2,419 of them made it to their intended targets.
Over 2000 were shot down or knocked off course by Royal Air Force fighter aircraft. Spitfire pilots learned that by placing the wing tip of their fighter plane underneath the V1's outer wing, that this would often upset the missile, tumble the gyros, and send it crashing out of control into the English countryside.
Anti-aircraft guns shot down an additional 1,971 V1s and 278 were snagged by barrage balloons that dotted the approach paths to the south of London.