To carry out the planned V-1 "flying bomb" attacks on the United Kingdom, Germany built a number of military installations including launching sites and depots.

Production plants to modify several hundred standard V-1s to Reichenberg R-III manned aircraft were in the woods of Dannenburg and at Pulverhof, with air-launch trials at Lärz and Rechlin.

[7] Other V-1 production-related sites included a Barth plant which used forced labor,[8] Buchenwald (V-1 parts),[9] and Allrich in the Harz.

[10] In addition to the storage and launching sites listed below, operational facilities included the airfields for Heinkel He 111 H-22 bombers which air-launched the V-1 from low altitude over the North Sea.

[11] To supply the V-1 flying bomb launch sites in the Calais region, construction began on several storage depots in August 1943.

[32] Initially the V-1 launching sites had storage buildings that were curved at the end to protect the contents against damage from air attacks.

Nazi Germany subsequently began constructing modified V-1 launch sites with limited structures that could be completed quickly, as necessary.