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...Supersonic wind-tunnels for studying missiles (like the V2) which move far faster than sound. The Navy is dismantling one such tunnel, will bring...
...that President Roosevelt sent him to London during the blitz. He was one of only four Americans to be entrusted with all U.S.-British technical secrets (the others: famed scientists Vannevar Bush, Karl T. Compton, James Bryant Conant). When the Nazis buzzed over their V-1 and V2, Hovde was drafted to devise countermeasures. He has since supervised the entire U.S. rocket-development program...
...licked. Before they stopped coming on March 27, 1,050 rockets had killed 2,754 people, seriously injured 6,523, damaged an untold number of buildings (including a million-dollar cinema at Marble Arch). Last week Churchill was asked in Parliament if he had an announcement to make about V2. Mindful of Duncan Sandys' unfortunate experience, he answered: "They have ceased." Then he sat down...
Last December, on the day that the Battle of the Bulge began, I picked my way over and around a sickening mass of debris in front of a devastated, still beautiful Gothic cathedral, just a half hour previously demolished by a V2, and turned into DeBoeystradt in Antwerp. I was on my way to dinner with new-made Belgian friends...
...Easter holidays brought a prayerful hope to Britons: that they had seen and felt and heard the last of the Germans' devilish V-bombs. For three days and nights, up to this week, not a single buzz-bomb (V1) or rocket bomb (V2) had fallen on Britain...