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The Peenemunde Wind Tunnels - A Memoir (Hardcover, New)
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The Peenemunde Wind Tunnels - A Memoir (Hardcover, New)
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In 1943, on orders from the German Air Ministry, young physicist
Peter P. Wegener left the Russian front and reported to the Baltic
village of Peenemunde. His assignment was to work at the supersonic
wind tunnels of the rocket laboratories of the German Army. Here
Wernher von Braun led a team that developed the V-2, the world's
first large rocket-powered guided missile, and laid much of the
groundwork for postwar rocket development.;In this book, Wegener
recounts his experiences during Hitler's time, World War II, and
his years at Peenemunde. He tells how he was working one night in
August 1943 when the allies bombed the laboratories, but left the
wind tunnels undamaged. The tunnels were moved to Bavaria, and
Wegener was ordered to follow in 1944. After the war, the tunnels
were moved again - this time to the United States, accompanied by
the author and other German scientists. Shortly before the end of
the war, Wegener visited Germany's underground V-2 production plant
to retrieve archival material on aerodynamics that had been stored
in caves for safekeeping.;He described the appalling history of the
concentration camps where SS guards watched over inmates who toiled
underground in inhuman conditions and often did not survive. A
photo essay enhances this memoir.
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