With troops still pinned down on the beaches, the British battleship HMS Warspite was ordered to use her massive fifteen-inch guns to bombard German positions. She was about to become the next victim of the Nazis’ latest secret weapon, the Fritz X, the world’s first guided anti-ship missile. Developed in great secrecy, the Germans had created a 3,000lb device that could penetrate five inches of armoured decking then burrow down to explode under the keel. It was mounted on Dornier 217 bombers and guided onto the target by a bombardier who used a transmitter to adjust its large fins in flight
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