V-2 rocket
- One engine at Cité de l'espace in Toulouse.
- V-2 display at 'La Coupole' museum, Wizernes, France (Pas de Calais, five kilometers from Saint-Omer).
- One rocket body no engine, one complete engine, one lower engine section and one wrecked engine on display at 'La Coupole' museum
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References and Notes
- ^ a b Kennedy, Gregory P. (1983). Vengeance Weapon 2: The V-2 Guided Missile. Washington DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, p27.
- ^ a b Neufeld, Michael J (1995). The Rocket and the Reich: Peenemünde and the Coming of the Ballistic Missile Era. New York: The Free Press, p225.
- ^ Peenemuende, Walter Dornberger, Moewig, Berlin 1985. ISBN 3-8118-4341-9.
- ^ Béon, Yves (1997). Planet Dora: A Memoir of the Holocaust and the Birth of the Space Age, Richard L. Fague, Westview Press, Div. of Harper Collins. ISBN 0-8133-3272-9.
- ^ a b c Ordway, Frederick I, III; Sharpe, Mitchell R. The Rocket Team, Apogee Books Space Series 36, p32.
- ^ a b Dornberger, Walter (1952 -- US translation V-2 Viking Press:New York, 1954). V2--Der Schuss ins Weltall. Esslingan: Bechtle Verlag, 39.
- ^ a b c d Irving, David (1964). The Mare's Nest. London: William Kimber and Co, p17.
- ^ a b Middlebrook, Martin (1982). The Peenemünde Raid: The Night of 17-18 August 1943. New York: Bobs-Merrill, p19.
- ^ Wernher von Braun & Frederick I. Ordway III (1985). Space Travel: A History. Harper & Row, p45.
- ^ Neufeld. 224
- ^ Irving. 135
- ^ Neufeld. 224
- ^ Hitler's terror weapons by Roy Irons: The price of vengeance page 181
- ^ Hakim, Joy (1995). A History of Us: War, Peace and all that Jazz. New York: Oxford University Press, 100-104. ISBN 0-19-509514-6.
- ^ Kennedy.74
- ^ The History Channel V2 Factory: Nordhausen 070723
- ^ Richard Ruggles, R. and H. Brodie (1947) An Empirical Approach to Economic Intelligence in World War II, Journal of the American Statistical Association, 42(237):72-91, March 1947.
- ^ A Rocket a Day Keeps the High Costs Away
- ^ Pocock, Rowland F (1967). German Guided Missiles of the Second World War. New York: Arco Publishing Company, Inc., p52.
- ^ Klee, Ernst; Merk, Otto (1963, English translation 1965). The Birth of the Missile:The Secrets of Peenemünde. Hamburg: Gerhard Stalling Verlag, p47.
- ^ Air Raid Precautions - Deaths and injuries
- ^ V2ROCKET.COM - Mobile Firing Operations & Locations
- ^ MDA Link
- ^ http://www.cdiss.co.uk/Documents/Uploaded/Missile%20Defence%20-%20Then%20and%20Now.pdf
- ^ Disturbing the Universe, Harper & Row, 1979, p.108
- ^ Hitler's terror weapons by Roy Irons: The price of vengeance
- ^ "We Want with the West", Time Magazine, Dec. 9, 1946.
- ^ The Peenemünde replica incorporates many original components along with remanufactured ones and was put together by a group that included Peenemünde expert Reinhold Kruger, who worked as an apprentice at Peenemünde during the war.
- Dungan, Tracy D. (2005). V-2: A Combat History of the First Ballistic Missile. Westholme Publishing. ISBN 1-59416-012-0.
- Huzel, Dieter K. (ca. 1965). Peenemunde to Canaveral. Prentice Hall Inc.
- King, Benjamin and Timothy J. Kutta (1998). Impact: The History of Germany's V-Weapons in World War II . (Alternately: Impact: An Operational History of Germany's V Weapons in World War II.) Rockville Center, New York: Sarpedon Publishers, 1998. ISBN 1-885119-51-8, ISBN 1-86227-024-4. Da Capo Press; Reprint edition, 2003: ISBN 0-306-81292-4.
- Piszkiewicz, Dennis (1995). The Nazi Rocketeers: Dreams of Space and Crimes of War. Westport, Conn.: Praeger. ISBN 0-275-95217-7.
- Germany's V-2 Rocket
- A-4/V-2 Resource Site.
- Beggs Aerospace Post-War V-2 Site.
- PBS: The hunt for Nazi scientists
- History of Peenemünde and the discovery of the German missile development by the Allied
- V-2 history page – from Canadian Arrow official website
- Discussion of V-2 defences (pdf)
- About effect of V2's on London
- German V2/A4 test range (Heidekraut) in Tuchola Forest (Poland) today
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