OK, so I'm the last to know that

[Mark Kohut]

No, I was not being ironic, as earnest as other recently posting plisters.

The *V*-*1 was named* by Das Reich journalist Hans Schwarz Van Berkl in
June 1944 with *Hitler's* approval.
The *V-1 flying bomb* (German
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_language>: *Vergeltungswaffe
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vergeltungswaffe> 1* "Vengeance Weapon 1"[a]
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V-1_flying_bomb#cite_note-3>)

—also known to the Allies as the *buzz bomb*, or *doodlebug*,[3]
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V-1_flying_bomb#cite_note-FOOTNOTEVanek199981-4>
[b] <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V-1_flying_bomb#cite_note-6> and in
Germany as *Kirschkern* (cherry <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherry>stone)
[c] <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V-1_flying_bomb#cite_note-7> or
*Maikäfer* (maybug <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maybug>),[d]
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V-1_flying_bomb#cite_note-8> as well as by
its official RLM aircraft designation of *Fi 103*[5]
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V-1_flying_bomb#cite_note-FOOTNOTEChristopher2013108-9>—was
an early cruise missile <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cruise_missile> and
the only production aircraft to use a pulsejet
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulsejet> for power.

On Sat, Jun 26, 2021 at 9:42 AM Jochen Stremmel <jstremmel at gmail.com> wrote:

> Don't know if you were being ironic Mark – were you? – but the Nazis,
> Shmazis weren't speaking English, of course. And Vergeltung doesn't
> translate to Vengeance in the 1st place, rather to retaliation,
> retribution, payback and so on.
>
> (Whom do you thank?)
>
> Pynchon-L: https://waste.org/mailman/listinfo/pynchon-l
>
>