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It's late 1944 and from out nowhere ICBMs start falling on the cities of New York and Washington, DC. These aren't V-1s and V-2s. These are multistage
ICBMs. These are A10s, or V-4s, the death toll is only between five hundred and
a thousand. Pretty low but to the American people, it's too high. For the first
time in the war, the United States has come under attack from a foreign power. President Roosevelt vows to find, and destroy, the missiles. The Eighth
Air Force, based in Britain, and the Royal Air Force, send photoreconaissance
planes over Germany. Pictures are taken, flown back over the English Channel,
and developed. The results, are to say the least, shocking. The pictures taken
of Peenemunde, the German rocket base, reveal underground silos. But for what? It soon comes to light that they're for the new A10 intercontinental ballistic missile, (ICBM, in today's terminology.) These pictures are sent to
London and Washington. When FDR sees them, he orders Operation Hangman,
a joint British-American raid to eliminate the A10 threat. The previous scenario was from my own mind. IOTL, it didn't happen. However, Germany was working on a larger, multistage version of the V-2 to hit America. The A10 was going to be the first ICBM. Like the rest of Hitler's "wonder weapons," it was a day late and a dollar short.
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