Word: nde
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...attributed this ignorance to excessive secrecy, but the British knew about Peenemünde and bombed it heavily only a month later...
Brilliant Engineering. General Dornberger's book is rather confused but highly instructive. It tells in detail how the V-2s were developed. There is no doubt about the brilliance of the rocket engineers who worked at the great Pennemünde base. They started from scratch, feeling their way in an area where virtually nothing was known. Many rockets failed, or exploded disastrously. The engineers had to develop instruments to find out why; they had to develop test stands and guiding devices and elaborate firing routines. Many of the rocket techniques still used today were worked...
Money was not the problem; by 1936, says Dornberger, "high authority virtually suffered from an attack of acute generosity." But even while money, men and equipment poured into Pennemünde, the project had no secure status. Hitler saw a rocket motor fired on a test stand, but was not impressed. Shortly after the start of World War II, the project's priority was reduced so low that Dornberger had to persuade Field Marshal von Brauchitsch to list his staff as fighting troops, out of reach of civilian authorities...
...atomic bomb, it might very well have won the war. Why no one realized this is probably explained by the amazing lack of coordination among Nazi bigwigs. Dornberger discovered in 1943 that practically no one at Hitler's headquarters had ever heard of the enormous Peenemünde base...
Freely Speaking. In Mercedes, Texas, showing the film Quo Vadis, the operator of the Wes-Mer Drive-In theater decided that a translation was necessary, on the marquee put "Doónde Vas" for his Mexican customers, "Where You All Goin' " for the Texans...