V-2 rocket offensive began on 8 September 1944, when "Lehr- und Versuchsbatterie No. 444" () launched a single rocket guided by a radio beam directed at Paris. Wreckage of combat V-2s occasionally contained the transponder for velocity and fuel cutoff. The painting of the operational V-2s was mostly a ragged-edged pattern with several variations, but at the end of the war a plain olive green rocket also appeared. During tests, the rocket was painted in a characteristic black-and-white chessboard pattern, which aided in determining if the rocket was spinning around its longitudinal axis. The original German designation of the rocket was "V2",
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