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...using Berlin's municipal dump; one day a black sedan stopped. Three German army officers stepped out, offered Von Braun military facilities to carry on his rocket work. At 20 he was chief of the entire German rocket program; at 32, working in the Nazi rocket center at Peenemünde, he built Germany's V2, which rained ruin on Britain. Caught between the advancing U.S. and Russian armies, Von Braun and his team unanimously voted to give themselves up to the West, also turned over some 2,000 tons of rocket equipment. The U.S. Army, keenly aware...
...Sandys plans to concentrate Britain's new defense efforts. A missiles buff since he commanded Britain's first experimental AA rocket regiment in World War II, and later the man who sold his father-in-law, Winston Churchill, on wiping out the German V-2 factory at Peenemünde, Sandys feels that Britain can be made secure only if it takes a bold stride into the rocket age. But his problem is the crushing cost of research development, and he hopes to widen the exchange agreement that he negotiated as Supply Minister with Wilson...
...Redstone Arsenal, Huntsville, Ala., Rees ran into an enemy turned friend. He was a wartime scientist at Peenemünde, where Germans developed their V-25. When Rees asked the scientist if he was at Peenemünde on Aug. 28, 1944, he thought a moment, then cried in a deep accent: "Ach, I sure was! The bombers came, and they hit my house and knocked me out of bed and almost killed me." Rees explained that he was there, too, as a radio-operator-gunner...
...Yorker by birth and Californian by choice, Ed Rees came to TIME as an office boy at the end of 1941. He was soon off with the Eighth Air Force, dropping bombs on Peenemünde and other targets. He shrugs off his 32 missions over Germany and Occupied France, but the military did not take them so lightly-Rees was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross and five Air Medals...
General Dornberger's book is an implied tribute to U.S. scientists and industrialists cooperating with their government. The brilliant engineers at Peenemünde did brilliant work, but the Nazi system achieved nothing like the harmony, purpose, coordination and effectiveness of the U.S. atom-bomb project...