Word: peenem
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Dates: during 1944-1944
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...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...
...that the 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...