Usertron, the V-1 was an area saturation weapon, not an Exocet, since it had a very primitive inertial navigation system. However, if you gave the V-1 some kind of radio-transmitted terminal guidance command (i.e. dive this minute) then a surveillance aircraft could have improved the accuracy. For air-to-ship, look at Fritz-X, etc.
The point I was trying to make (amid teasing those US citizens who still regard D-Day as an all-American affair) was that the Reich had technical resources that could have caused massive devastation of the landing forces. Not equipping the troops with chemical protective gear was a gamble that paid off, but a gamble that could have been disastrous.
The V-1 was so impressive (cheap, good range, good payload) that the USA wanted to build 75,000 (JB-2 Loon) and use them to bombard Japan ahead of an invasion of Honshu. Without the A-bomb, the JB-2 might have terrified Japan.
The point I was trying to make (amid teasing those US citizens who still regard D-Day as an all-American affair) was that the Reich had technical resources that could have caused massive devastation of the landing forces. Not equipping the troops with chemical protective gear was a gamble that paid off, but a gamble that could have been disastrous.
The V-1 was so impressive (cheap, good range, good payload) that the USA wanted to build 75,000 (JB-2 Loon) and use them to bombard Japan ahead of an invasion of Honshu. Without the A-bomb, the JB-2 might have terrified Japan.