First significant cruise missile. German engineer, Paul Schmidt, working from design of Lorin tube, developed and patented a ramjet engine later modified and used in the V-1 Flying Bomb.

• V-1 engine concept patented.

  German engineer, Paul Schmidt, working from design of Lorin tube, developed and patented a ramjet engine later modified and used in the V-1 Flying Bomb.

• Manned V-1 test flights.

  Geman "Reichenberg" program began for use of manned V-1's air launched from He-111's for suicide missions; test flights were made at Peenemünde.

• V-1 first attacks.

  The first German V-1's fired in anger, launched from France against England with 4 of the 11 striking London.

• Loon first launch.

  First missile launched at Naval Air Facility, Point Mugu, Calif., a KVW-1 Loon, USN name for AAF robot bomb (JB-2) modeled on the German V-1.

• 47 - Ley, Willy, Rockets Missiles and Men in Space, Viking Press, New York, 1968.