Southern England is bombed by approximately 11,400 V-1s and V-2s (Vergeltungswaffe, retaliatory weapon) each with 1 ton of TNT; the 10,000 V-1s cause 6,184 deaths, the 1,402 V-2s on London cause 2,754 deaths; 1,847 V-1s are intercepted by fighter planes, 1,866 are shot down by anti-aircraft guns, 12 by naval defenses, 232 explode against anti-aircraft balloons.
