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    Peenemünde Airfield. During the 10th and 11th centuries, Peenemünde was part of the region of Circipania, an area settled by the Circipanes, a West Slavic...
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    The Peenemünde Army Research Center (‹See Tfd›German: Heeresversuchsanstalt Peenemünde, HVP) was founded in 1937 as one of five military proving grounds...
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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 Peenemünde Historical Technical Museum (‹See Tfd›German: Historisch-Technisches Museum Peenemünde or HTM), former "Peenemünde Information Centre for...
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    Stüwe (1998), Peenemünde West: Die Erprobungsstelle der Luftwaffe für geheime Fernlenkwaffen und deren Entwicklungsgeschichte [Peenemünde West: The Luftwaffe's...
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    in Augsburg and in early 1940 was shipped to receive its engine at Peenemünde-West, one of the quartet of Erprobungsstelle-designated military aviation...
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    and was selected by the Reich Air Ministry as chief test pilot at Peenemünde West. He is remembered as the first person to fly an aircraft under liquid-fueled...
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  • Fuels, www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/122495.pdf page 5 Botho Stüwe, Peenemünde-West, Bechtermünz-Verlag ISBN 3-8289-0294-4, 1998 page 220, German John...
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    test facilities, or Erprobungstellen located at three coastal sites – Peenemünde-West (also incorporating a separate facility in nearby Karlshagen), Tarnewitz...
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    October 1941 Heini Dittmar 623.65 1,003.67 Messerschmitt Me 163A "V4" Peenemünde-West, Germany Rocket powered – World War II secret, not an Official FAI...
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    Germany: Bernard & Graefe Verlag, 1993. ISBN 3-7637-5467-9. Stüwe, Botho. Peenemünde West (in German). Augsburg, Bavaria, Germany: Bechtermünz Verlag, 1999....
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    the Luftwaffe's Erprobungsstelle coastal test centre at Karlshagen, Peenemünde-West. Erhard Milch, State Secretary in the Reich Ministry of Aviation and...
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    Danish Airforce. Tøjhusmuseet. ISBN 87-89022-24-6. Stüwe, Botho (1999). Peenemünde West (in German). Augsburg, Germany: Bechtermünz Verlag. ISBN 3-8289-0294-4...
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    these was the extension of the "Army Research Center Peenemünde" (Heeresversuchsanstalt Peenemünde in German, abbreviated HVP) and the "Air Force Test...
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    Aviatic-Verlag GmbH. pp. 17, 122. ISBN 3-925505-26-1. Stüwe, Botho (1999). Peenemünde West (in German). Augsburg: Bechtermünz Verlag. pp. 207, 211–213. ISBN 3-8289-0294-4...
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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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    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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  • known today as Peenemünde-West was in danger over being overrun by the Soviet Red Army so all of its materiel and personnel were moved west to Bremerhaven...
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  • High. London: Grub Street, 1994. ISBN 1-898697-00-0. Stüwe, Botho. Peenemünde West (in German). Augsburg, Germany: Bechtermünz Verlag, 1999. ISBN 3-8289-0294-4...
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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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    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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    in black marble. The aircraft-like V1, developed at the Luftwaffe's Peenemünde-West test site, was first used against London from launch sites on the Channel...
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    Lärz and Rechlin. Flight testing was performed by the Luftwaffe at Peenemünde West and, after the August 1943 Operation Hydra bombing, at Brüsterort....
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    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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  • using Bf 110s instead. Erprobungskommando 16 was formed March 1943 in Peenemünde-West, as a test unit for the new Messerschmitt Me 163 rocket fighter, and...
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    was ready to begin production of the V-2, the British bombed Peenemünde. After Peenemünde was bombed, the V-2 production facility was moved to the Mittelwerk...
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  • Walter Thiel (3 March 1910, Breslau – 17 August 1943, Karlshagen, near Peenemünde) was a German rocket scientist. Thiel provided the decisive ideas for...
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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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    early 1940s to plan and build accommodation for the V 1 production in Peenemünde-West and other work. As far as he was able, he and like-minded people tried...
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    The A4 Rocket From Peenemünde To Redstone, Crecy Publications, ISBN 978-1-90653-753-1 Huzel, Dieter K. (1981) [1962], Peenemünde to Canaveral (reprint ed...
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