service for the village is available at the Peenemünde Airfield. During the 10th and 11th centuries, Peenemünde was part of the region of Circipania, an...
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The Peenemünde Army Research Center (German: Heeresversuchsanstalt Peenemünde, HVP) was founded in 1937 as one of five military proving grounds under...
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Peenemünde Airfield (IATA: PEF, ICAO: EDCP) is an airfield on the Baltic Sea coast, north of Peenemünde, Germany. Today, round trips in light aircraft...
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The bombing of Peenemünde in World War II was carried out on several occasions as part of the overall Operation Crossbow to disrupt German secret weapon...
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V-2 rocket (category Peenemünde Army Research Center and Airfield)
at Peenemünde to initiate the funding of university research to solve rocket problems.: 40 By late 1941, the Army Research Center at Peenemünde possessed...
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The Peenemünde Historical Technical Museum (German: Historisch-Technisches Museum Peenemünde or HTM), former "Peenemünde Information Centre for History...
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Operation Hydra (1943) (category Peenemünde Army Research Center and Airfield)
attack by RAF Bomber Command on a German scientific research centre at Peenemünde on the night of 17/18 August 1943. Group Captain John Searby, commanding...
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Magnus von Braun (section Peenemünde)
worked on Nazi Germany’s guided missile development and production at the Peenemünde Army Research Center and the Mittelwerk from 1943-1945. At age 26, he...
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onwards. Through this Dulles received crucial information and plans about Peenemünde, the V-1 and the V-2 rocket. Beginning in October 1943, launch sites for...
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Wernher von Braun (category Peenemünde Army Research Center and Airfield)
out the Peenemünde documents, enabling the scientists to continue their rocketry experiments. Finally, von Braun and his remaining Peenemünde staff (see...
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leader of Nazi Germany's V-2 rocket programme and other projects at the Peenemünde Army Research Centre. After the war, the US Nazi scientist recruitment...
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German A-4 test rocket launched on 20 June 1944, at the Peenemünde Army Research Center in Peenemünde. It was the first human-made object to reach outer space...
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rocket research program at Peenemünde and the development of the V-2 rocket, Debus led the Test Stand Group personnel at Peenemünde and was the engineer in...
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: 56 This was the first of the Aggregat rockets to be launched from the Peenemünde area. As part of Operation Lighthouse the first A3 was launched on 4 December...
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A V-2 rocket launched from a fixed site in Peenemünde, 21 June 1943...
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Test Stand VII (category Peenemünde Army Research Center and Airfield)
Prüfstand VII, P-7) was the principal V-2 rocket testing facility at Peenemünde Airfield and was capable of static firing rocket motors with up to 200...
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List of V-2 test launches (category Peenemünde Army Research Center and Airfield)
at Peenemünde Test Stand VII, Blizna V-2 missile launch site and Tuchola Forest using experimental and production rockets fabricated at Peenemünde and...
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operationally used. V-2 research was conducted at the Peenemünde Army Research Center with most Peenemünde test launches conducted from Test Stand VII. After...
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Goebbels (centre) and Armaments Minister Albert Speer (to Goebbels' left) observe rocket tests at Peenemünde, August 1943....
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would have been trapped in Peenestrom, had Peenemünde Sconce been lost at this time. Charles XII quit Peenemünde Sconce for Ruden on 1 August along with...
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Klaus Riedel (category Peenemünde Army Research Center and Airfield)
Dornberger, military head of Peenemünde, and major Hans Georg Klamroth, reprensentative for counterintelligence at Peenemünde, obtained their conditional...
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was developed in Germany at the Peenemünde military research center. Wernher von Braun was the director of Peenemünde and worked with a team of engineers...
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from Kummersdorf to the Peenemünde Army Research Center in the summer of 1940, Thiel became deputy director of the Peenemünde HVP Organization under von...
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: 69 Thirty-five Wasserfall trial firings had been completed by the time Peenemünde was evacuated on 17 February 1945.: 107 The Bäckebo rocket, a V-2 rocket...
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Mannheim Moers Münster Munich Nordhausen Nuremberg Osnabrück Paderborn Peenemünde Pforzheim Potsdam Rostock Saarbrücken Schweinfurt Siegen Stuttgart Ulm...
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(V-weapons) deployed for the terror bombing of London. It was developed at Peenemünde Army Research Center in 1939 by the Luftwaffe at the beginning of the...
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Remnants of launchpads in Germany (section Peenemünde)
In Germany, military test rockets were launched in Peenemünde (including Greifswalder Oie) and Cuxhaven, and larger non-military rockets were launched...
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underway, 1983 A Project 651 boat underway, 1986 K-24 (now U-461 of the Peenemünde Maritime Museum), Project 651 Juliett cruise missile submarine, with rear...
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ruses were used to mislead the Allies about V-1 launch sites and the Peenemünde Army Research Center which were targeted for attacks by the Allies. The...
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