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Could this landmark tower become a missile base? Image by M@.

Missiles To Be Stationed On Flats During Olympics?

Are these the most heavily-militarised Olympics ever?

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Missile Sites Proposed For Blackheath And Shooters Hill

Potential Olympic defence sites revealed.

Just living up to the Olympic motto: 'faster, higher, stronger'.

Ground-to-Air Missiles For Olympics?

Are we living in Robocop or something?

Left: Occasionally, craters are still visible, as here on Leyton Marsh. Right: Often, whole blocks were obliterated, as can still be seen in this aerial image of Brockley.

London V2 Rocket Sites…Mapped

View Larger Map Autumn 1944, and London was under attack from space. Hitler’s ‘vengeance’ rocket, the V-2, was the world’s first ballistic missile, and the first man-made object to make a sub-orbital spaceflight. Over 1400 were launched at Britain, with more than 500 striking London. …