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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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    municipality) of Usedom-Nord. The community is known for the Peenemünde Army Research Center, where the world's first functional large-scale liquid-propellant...
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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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    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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    Wernher von Braun (category Peenemünde Army Research Center and Airfield)
    Germany. In 1939, von Braun was appointed a technical advisor at Peenemünde Army Research Center on the Baltic Sea. In 1933, von Braun was working on his creative...
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    Ministry officially separated Peenemünde-West from the joint command that included the adjacent Army Research Center Peenemünde.: 63  As Werk West, the Luftwaffe...
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    Wilhelm Ritter von Thoma (category German Army personnel of World War I)
    Brauchitsch, the Commander-in-Chief of the Army. British reconnaissance flights over Peenemünde Army Research Center in May and June 1943 brought back unmistakable...
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    Germany’s guided missile development and production at the Peenemünde Army Research Center and the Mittelwerk from 1943-1945. At age 26, he emigrated...
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    were never operationally used. V-2 research was conducted at the Peenemünde Army Research Center with most Peenemünde test launches conducted from Test...
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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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  • and the rocket research in the Peenemünde Army Research Center. The film deals with the history of ideas surrounding the rocket research and the conquest...
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    Klaus Riedel (category Peenemünde Army Research Center and Airfield)
    experiments, and eventually worked on the V-2 missile programme at Peenemünde Army Research Center. Riedel was born in Wilhelmshaven, the son of a naval officer...
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  • forced labourers drafted to work at Peenemünde. Subsequent attacks were carried out in daylight raids by the US Army Air Force's Eighth Air Force. Among...
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  • producing heavy water. Erich Apel - former rocket engineer at the Peenemünde Army Research Center, worked in the V-2 rocket program with Wernher von Braun. Apel...
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    1945, Karlshagen lay in the restricted area of the army laboratory Peenemünde Army Research Center. Karlshagen also was the location of the housing development...
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  • List of German guided weapons of World War II (category Peenemünde Army Research Center and Airfield)
    first guided surface-to-air missiles, and the first anti-ship missiles. Peenemünde rocket test site Wernher von Braun Walter Dornberger Walter Thiel Max...
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  • V2 intricacies from his work for the V2 development in the Peenemünde Army Research Center. The operation formally known as Operation Osoaviakhim was...
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    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 Second World...
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    launch sites and the Peenemünde Army Research Center which were targeted for attacks by the Allies. The Polish resistance Home Army (Armia Krajowa), which...
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  • February 1945, the SS evacuated V-2 rocket scientists from the Peenemünde Army Research Center to the Alpine Fortress. SS Generalleutnant Gottlob Berger claimed...
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    William Mrazek (category Peenemünde Army Research Center and Airfield)
    worked first at Peenemünde Army Research Center and later, through Operation Paperclip, at Fort Bliss and the Marshall Space Flight Center, where he was...
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    Space force (redirect from Space army)
    rocket launched by the German Heer on 20 June 1944 from the Peenemünde Army Research Center. The A4, more commonly known as the V-2, was the world's first...
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  • the German V-weapons program; serving on the SS staff at the Peenemünde Army Research Center and the V-2 rocket production facility at Mittelwerk. He was...
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  • Gerhard B. Heller (category Peenemünde Army Research Center and Airfield)
    scientist and member of the "von Braun rocket team." He worked at Peenemünde Army Research Center during World War II and later, through Operation Paperclip...
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    Operation Hydra (1943) (category Peenemünde Army Research Center and Airfield)
    was an 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...
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  • the Second World War. The projects, which were undertaken at Peenemünde Army Research Center, aimed to develop submarine-launched rockets, flying bombs...
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    Operation Crossbow (category Peenemünde Army Research Center and Airfield)
    warheads. The Allies received detailed information about V-1, V-2 and Peenemünde research site from the Austrian resistance group around the priest Heinrich...
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    Heinkel He 176 (category Peenemünde Army Research Center and Airfield)
    true pictures of the He 176 have survived which were probably taken in Peenemünde while undergoing testing. During the 1920s, German daredevils and inventors...
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    1965) worked during World War Two as a rocket engineer at the Peenemünde Army Research Center in Nazi Germany. After his return from the Soviet Union, where...
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    1943, RAF bombers carried out Operation Hydra against the Peenemünde Army Research Center where V-2 development and production was being carried out...
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