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Well done Ian 

I know someone in Holland who experienced WWII and she still says when she enters a room with a mess; "Did someone drop a V1 today?"

The V1's were targeted at London, but sometimes they had engine problems and would crash before reaching their target. That's why people in countries like Holland were looking for cover when they heard a V1 coming over with engine problems.

Later on, the Germans started to build the V2, that looked more like the rockets we know today. After the war, some German rocket engineers  fled to Russia and some to the States. They were the brains behind the space programs they later developped. Werner von Braun for example was THE driving force in the US.