30 Jun 1944
United Kingdom
United Kingdom
- Weald House in Edenbridge, Kent, England, United Kingdom was being used by London County Council as a home for evacuated mothers and babies. In the early morning a V-1 was deflected by a tree and directly hit the house; twenty-two babies were killed outright or died in hospital, eight staff also died. The mothers at the rear of the building survived. ww2dbase [V-Weapons Campaign | Vergeltungswaffe 1 | Edenbridge, England | HM]
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