doodlebug

"My first posting was London district - the bombing was still going on and I saw the first 'doodlebug' fall," she said.

While stationed in Liverpool as a Royal Air Force physical training instructor, a doodlebug landed near Max, perforating his eardrums and leading to a spell laid up in hospital.

“I would buy you all them cakes, doodlebug,” said Grandfather Burke.

Mrs. Ellis once had to take evasive action to avoid a deadly Nazi flying bomb known as a “doodlebug” or “buzz bomb” because of its noise.

She survived a war in London and as a child she saw the doodlebugs come down.