Word: nde
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...missiles' most likely origin: Peenemünde, former V-bomb base on Germany's Soviet-occupied Baltic coast. Swedish Army spokesmen knew little beyond the fact that they were fired with a new type of weapon. But a picture released by the Army last week finally convinced all the papers (except the Communist) that the rockets were real, and that a foreign power (i.e., Russia) was using Sweden as a testing ground. Blustered Stockholm's Social Democratic Morgantidningen: "Intrusiveness must not be allowed to continue...
...world might soon be unloaded. Hamburg's port was a shambles, with the hulks of more than 50 large ships sunk in the harbor. But damage to the docks was not so great as expected, and British minesweepers were busy clearing the channel. At Bremerhaven and Wesermünde it was believed that 20 Liberty ships could soon be docked. Eight ships could dock at Bremen...
...Zossen, only 20 miles from Berlin, a special mission of 650 U.S. heavies spread fire and ruin over a large barracks, reportedly the German General Staff's Headquarters. At Swinemünde, ships loading supplies for Stettin got it hot & heavy. At Oranienburg, a focal rail point for the Oder front, more than 700 U.S. bombers put on the strangle. Berlin was hit with a record U.S. attack (1,300 bombers, 700 fighters) on rail yards and armaments factories. British Mosquitoes went into their fifth week of unbroken nightly bombings of the German capital. Re-rigged R.A.F. Lancasters flew...
...year and a half ago a WAF photo-interpreter, Flying Officer Constance Babington-Smith, gave the first alarm: she spotted a plane model in a picture taken over the German experimental station at Peenemünde. A black smudge around the model looked like the burn of a rocket blast...
...Allied command also feared more trouble to come, from the larger, longer-ranged V-2 of which the Nazis boast. It was no secret that the bombers were trying to nip off V-2 as well as stop Vi. The targets were significant: the experimental stations at Peenemünde and Zinnowitz on the wooded Baltic coast (R.A.F. attacks there a year ago were officially credited with having delayed V-1 by six months); robot-parts plants at Friedrichshafen and Memmingen in southwest Germany; unnamed factories turning out special fuels for pilotless bombs; storage points in France and Germany...