Battle of the V-1

Poland, October 1942. All males from 22 to 42 are ordered to report for volunteer labour service. Unknown location.

Stefan (Michael Rennie) and Tadek (David Knight), working as spies for the Polish Resistance, are herded with the other men into a labour camp. Unknown location.

They realise the labour camp is in Peenemunde on the Baltic coast. Shoreham Beach, Shoreham-by-Sea, Sussex, by the entrance to Shoreham Harbour. The location can also be seen in 'Dangerous Voyage' and 'Rogues Yarn'.

The rail track may have been for the travelling crane which ran along the harbour arm.

Stefan and Tadek wonder what the place is for. The west harbour arm, facing Shoreham Harbour entrance. Scenes for 'The Flaw' were filmed to the north of here.

Viewed near to Shoreham Fort at the end of Shoreham Beach.

They suspect it could be a Nazi experimental station. Brighton B Power Station, Basin Road South, Shoreham Harbour, Southwick in Sussex. Also seen in 'Dangerous Voyage', 'Rogue's Yarn', 'Shadow Of Fear' (1963) and 'Smokescreen'.

Brighton B Power Station was demolished in stages between 1988 and 1998. The smaller Shoreham Power Station was completed in 2000.

Stefan and Tadek are chosen to work inside the experimental station. Shoreham Fort, Shoreham-By-Sea, Sussex. The fort was used as a film studio in 1914 by Francis Lyndhurst's Sealite film company.

The barrack block on the left was demolished in 1959.

While on cleaning duty, they discover an experimental V-1 flying bomb in a hangar. This could be the gas works which was east of the power station at Shoreham Harbour. The interior of No. 2 retort house was used in the bombing raid scene.

A postman delivers Stefan's coded message to his wife Zofia (Patricia Medina). 11 Sussex Terrace, Brighton, Sussex. The houses were demolished in 1958 and the road renamed John Street. The house stood directly opposite No. 30 which still exists.

John Street after redevelopment.

Zofia takes the message to the cinema to give to Polish Resistance agent Stanislaw (Peter Madden). Pavilion Cinema, North Street, Portslade, Sussex.

The Pavilion Cinema closed in 1958. The building is now used by a plating company.

The information about Peenemunde is sent to London. Bridge Street, London SW1, with Parliament Square to the left.

The decision is made for an immediate air raid on Peenemunde. The Palace of Westminster seen from Lambert Palace Road in SE1.

Peter took the decision to take this shot of a similar view.

Sefan and Tadek stand by the crater made after a V-1, launched from a military base at Blizna, explodes in a field. Old Salts Farm, Old Salts Farm Road, Lancing in Sussex.

As near as I could get without trespassing in the field.

The V-1 has been tracked to the farm. Franus (Gregory Dark) goes over to inspect the crater. Old Salts Farm, Lancing.

The barn has now been converted.

Inside a derelict windmill, the resistance fighters plan their next strike against the Nazis. Shiremark Mill, Capel, Surrey, just north of Shiremark Farm on the A24 Horsham road. The windmill burnt down in 1972 and now only the brick base remains. The derelict mill was also seen in 'Dangerous Voyage'.

The remains of the mill is on private land but Graham Lelliott was given permission by the owner to photograph the brick base. (SD)

Sarnaki, Poland. A farmer and his son shelter under a bridge as a V-1 comes down in a field. On the river Adur, north of Upper Beeding, Sussex.

Thankfully there is no need to shelter here now.

The unexploded V-1 is dismantled and driven to an abandoned airstrip in Janow, loaded onto a C-47 Dakota transport plane and flown to England. Shoreham Airport in Sussex , a location that also appears in 'The Da Vinci Code', 'Richard II', 'Rogue's Yarn', 'The Body Stealers', 'The Big Switch' and 'The Master Plan'.

The north east corner of the airport, with a much smaller plane than a Dakota.