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The British government censored news stories and issued propaganda broadcasts to cover up the threat of the V-2 rockets to wartime London, according to declassified documents recently released by the National Archives.(News)

History Today,  November, 2004  

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The British government censored news stories and issued propaganda broadcasts to cover up the threat of the V-2 rockets to wartime London, according to declassified documents recently released by the National Archives. The German rockets first hit the capital in September 1944, but Churchill decided to tell the public that gas explosions were ...

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