V2 (Peenemunde)

MILITARY GENERAL World War II V2 Rocket

 First Edition in SCARCE HARDCOVER.

Major-General Dr. Walter Robert Dornberger (6 September 1895 – 26 June 1980) was a German Army artillery officer whose career spanned World War I and World War II. He was a leader of Nazi Germany’s V-2 rocket programme and other projects at the   Army Research Centre. After the war, the US Nazi scientist recruitment programme Operation Paperclip saw him move to the US, largely avoiding punishment for involvement in war crimes, to work for some decades in high positions in aerospace, including for Bell Aircraft and Boeing.

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Translated from1952 German edition: Dornberger, Walter (1952). V-2, der Schuss ins Weltall: Geschichte einer grossen Erfindung [V-2, the Shot into Space: History of a Great Invention] (in German). Esslingen: Bechtle Verlag

• Germany. Heer. Heeresversuchstelle Peenemunde — History
• V-2 rocket — History
• World War, 1939-1945 — Technology
• Military engineers — Germany — Biography