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WOLFERTZ: it was a fire and forget weapon of mediocre destruction. Hardly worth the expense

Beginning in September 1944, over 3,000 V-2s were launched by the German Wehrmacht against Allied targets during the war, mostly London and later Antwerp and Liège. According to a BBC documentary in 2011, the attacks resulted in the deaths of an estimated 9,000 civilians and military personnel, while 12,000 forced laborers and concentration camp prisoners were killed producing the weapons.
For the war the 8th AF lost about 2000 heavy bombers - each with a ten man crew. Not all were killed of course - some bailed out. For the entire war the 8th AF, out of two million men, had 27,000 killed.
RAF Bombing Sorties & Losses 1939–45 Sorties Losses Night: 7,449; Day: 876. After the war, the U.S. Strategic Bombing Survey reviewed the available records in Germany, and concluded that official German statistics of casualties from air attack had been too low. The survey estimated that at a minimum 305,000 were killed in German cities due to bombing and estimated a minimum of 780,000 wounded. Roughly 7,500,000 German civilians were also rendered homeless. In addition to the minimum figure given in the Strategic bombing survey, the number of people killed by Allied bombing in Germany has been estimated at between 400,000 and 600,000 In the UK, 60,595 British were killed by German bombing and in France, 67,078 French were killed by US-UK bombing Belgrade was heavily bombed by the Luftwaffe on 6 April 1941, when more than 17,000 people were killed. According to The Oxford companion to World War II, "After Italy's surrender the Allies kept up the bombing of the northern part occupied by the Germans and more than 50,000 Italians were killed in these raids." Thankyou Wikipedia:
Ballpark math: British and American bombers lost: 10,325! vs estimated civilian bombing raid fatalities of Germans, French, and Italians -not counting 'dehoused persons- 422,070+-; comes to 41 people killed per bomber lost. 9,000 casualties, not including 'dehoused people (and the 12,000 slave laborers killed making the weapon) from 3000 V-2's comes to 3 people killed per V-2, all of which were lost. Each V-2 cost 20 times more money to manufacture than a V-1, and yet their warheads were almost the same size.(1900 vs 2000 lbs.) The final V-2 attacks of the war occurred on March 27, 1945 -- one on Antwerp, which killed 27 people, and one on England, which seriously injured 23 and killed Ivy Mildred Millichamp, the last person to be killed in Britain by enemy action during World War II. If rule 1 of war is true: 'war must pay for itself', V-2's were mediocre at best and a total failure at worst-little return for investment IMHO...round one to Wolfertz.