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...Wernher von Braun-a man of great imagination and farsighted wisdom. He is our only hope in the missiles race...
...Germany's leading rocket engineers before and during World War II, was named technical assistant to President Leston Faneuf of Bell Aircraft Corp. Dornberger directed V-1 and rocket-powered V-2 missiles at Peenemunde, Germany's big rocket-research center, where he bossed Wernher von Braun, a top U.S. Army missile expert. Dornberger later developed Bell's Rascal, air-to-surface guided missile how used by the Strategic Air Command...
...Defense Department's "arbitrary," "rigid" and "dangerous" ruling that Army missiles must be limited to 200 miles ground to ground and 100 miles ground to air (TIME, Dec. 10). Army Secretary Wilber M. Brucker decorated the Redstone Arsenal's most famous missile scientist, ex-German Missileman Wernher von Braun, boosted the Army's claim that its 1,500-mile missile Jupiter is superior to the rival Air Force Thor and is in fact "the most advanced guided missile yet produced in the free world...
...before Project Vanguard's birth, the Army and Navy jointly undertook a satellite project thought up by Engineer Wernher Von Braun, captured German V-2 expert turned U.S. Army missile brain. Von Braun planned to equip the Army's tested Redstone missile with booster rockets and use the hybrid to send a small (5 Ib.) satellite into an earth-girdling orbit...
...charges of laxity, whereupon the Army dropped the tough specifications about espionage and perjury (and thus reduced the sentence). Then, Nickerson's civilian counsel Ray H. Jenkins (of Army-McCarthy fame) produced, one by one, a galaxy of star witnesses including the creator of Hitler's V2, Wernher von Braun, to deliver what he called "mitigating" evidence. "Is not Nickerson bitterly partisan?" he asked one witness, a German research scientist. "Yes-in favor of the Army," said the scientist...