V-weapons vast majority aimed at London; 2,515 reached the city, killing 6,184 civilians and injuring 17,981. Croydon to the south, on the flight path of the V1s suffered severely taking 142 hits. V-2 rocket launching sites were set up by the Germans around The Hague in the Netherlands on 6 September 1944. The first was launched from here against London on 8 September 1944 and took an estimated 5 minutes to fly the 200 miles from the Hague to London where it struck at 6.43pm on 8 September on Chiswick causing thirteen casualties. As the V2 explosions came without warning, the
Staveley Road November 1944. Each V-2 rocket was forty-six feet long and carried a one tonne warhead. 4,300 V-2 rockets would be launched. The final V-2 to hit England would be on 27 March 1945 in Kent, killing a 34-year-old woman. 517 V-2 rockets would hit London. The most devastating V-2 attack in London would be on 25 November 1944, killing 160 people. Staveley Road Staveley Road is a road in Chiswick in the London Borough of Hounslow. Staveley Road was built between 1927 and 1931 as part of the Chiswick Park Estate. At 6.43pm on Friday 8 September 1944, a V-2