The progenitor of the A9 / A10 was the German V-2 rocket, also designed by von Braun and widely used at the end of World War II to bomb British and Belgian cities.

In the immediate post-war era, the US and USSR both started rocket research programs based on the German wartime designs, especially the V-2.

By this time, the best Goebbels could do to reassure the German people that victory was still possible was to make vague promises that " miracle weapons " such as the Me 262 jet aircraft, the Type XXI U-boat, and the V-2 rocket could somehow retrieve the military situation.

* 1944 – The first German V-2 rocket hits the United Kingdom.

Here a part of the team on the German rocket program was developing the Wasserfall missile, a variant of the V-2 rocket, the first ground-to-air missile.

* 1944 – World War II: A German V-2 rocket hits a Woolworth's shop on New Cross High Street, United Kingdom, killing 168 shoppers.

Several German guided missiles and rockets of World War II were developed by the HVP, including the V-2 rocket ( A-4 ) ( see test launches ), and the Wasserfall ( 35 Peenemünde trial firings ), Schmetterling, Rheintochter, Taifun, and Enzian missiles.

Category: German V-2 rocket facilities

The first steps of putting a man-made object into space were taken by German scientists during World War II while testing the V-2 rocket, which became the first human-made object in space on 3 October 1942 with the launching of V-4.

Starting in 1947, the Soviets, also with the help of German teams, launched sub-orbital V-2 rockets and their own variant, the R-1, including radiation and animal experiments on some flights.

The original German designation of the rocket was " V2 ", unhyphenated, but U. S. publications such as LIFE magazine were using the hyphenated form " V-2 " as early as December 1944.

* June – German V-2 rockets on test from Peenemünde become the first man-made objects to enter space.

Founded after World War II, the first scientific instruments built at LASP were launched into space using captured German V-2 rockets.

A US Army ( formerly German ) V-2 rocket as part of Project Hermes was launched from White Sands Proving Grounds.

The German V-2 rocket used a system of primitive multiplexed radio signals called " Messina " to report four rocket parameters, but it was so unreliable that Wernher von Braun once claimed it was more useful to watch the rocket through binoculars.

The first Chinese ballistic missiles were based on Russian design, which was originally based on the German V-2 rocket.

The first rocket to reach space, an altitude of 189 km, was the German V-2 rocket, on a test flight in June 1944

) Oberth moved to Peenemünde, Germany, in 1941 to work on Nazi German rocketry projects, including the V-2 rocket weapon, and in about September 1943, he was awarded the Kriegsverdienstkreuz I Klasse mit Schwertern ( War Merit Cross 1st Class, with Swords ) for his " outstanding, courageous behavior ... during the attack " on Peenemünde by Operation Hydra, part of Operation Crossbow.

For the next five years, von Braun and the German scientists and engineers were primarily engaged in adapting and improving the V-2 missile for U. S. applications ; testing was conducted at nearby White Sands Proving Grounds, New Mexico.

From September 1944 to March 1945 Wassenaar was one of launching sites used by the German Luftwaffe, commanded by SS General Hans Kammler for the V-2 rockets directed mainly towards London.

Another early vehicle to break the sound barrier was probably the first successful test launch of the German V-2 ballistic missile on 3 October 1942, at Peenemünde in Germany.

Hydrogen peroxide has been used for main thrusters and as power source for propellant tank pumps in rockets like the German WWII V-2 ( same as US Redstone rocket ).

Starting from the R-1, which was a copy of the German V-2, a free-standing missile was launched from a horizontal pad.

Remarkably, Hendrik Wade Bode, the man who helped develop automatic radar-controlled artillery that brought down the German V-1 flying bombs over London during World War II, was actually serving in the same committee and sitting at the same table as Wernher von Braun who was head of the team which developed the V-2, the other weapon that terrorized London.

The Swedish Navy started to experiment with missiles, based on a recovered German V-2 missile, as early as 1944.

To the German pilot in the bomber the rocket became a faint black speck, hurtling through the sky at the then incredible speed of 420 m.p.h..

German jet and rocket powered fighters entered combat in 1944, although too late to impact the war's outcome.

The distinctive howling sound of the rocket launching terrified the German troops and could be used for psychological warfare.

* 1906 – Arthur Rudolph, German rocket engineer ( d. 1996 )

* 1945 – Cold War: Operation Paperclip – the United States Army secretly admits 88 German scientists and engineers to help in the development of rocket technology.

** Cold War: The United States controversially imports 88 German scientists to help in the production of rocket technology.

* Reinhold Tiling, German rocket pioneer

* Cirrus ( rocket ), a German research rocket

A model of a Germany | German SAR-Lupe reconnaissance satellite inside a Cosmos-3M rocket.

The first shot of the war at sea was fired on 5 August 1914 by a destroyer of the 2nd Flotilla,, in an engagement with the German auxiliary minelayer.

* April 10 – WWII: The U. S. destroyer, while picking up survivors from a sunken Dutch freighter, drops depth charges on a German U-Boat ( the first " shot in anger " fired by America against Germany ).

** West German refugee minister Theodor Oberländer is fired because of his past with Nazi Germany.

Before guns are fired, the 1889 Apia cyclone blows in and sinks all the ships, American and German.

The German artillery preparation and its follow up involved some 800 heavy guns which fired nearly shells and transformed the two hills into volcanoes of mud and rocks.

However, they retreated as they had come into sights of machine gun nests and the German reinforcements fired artillery at the attackers.

The British crew fired 9 rounds from the 3 pounder into U-4 at close range, sinking her with the loss of all hands despite the attempt of Inverlyon's skipper to rescue one surviving German submariner.

The artillery fired a creeping barrage and the attacking waves pushed up close behind it in no man's land, leaving them only a short distance to cross when the barrage lifted from the German front trench.

The fortress fired at the invaders, causing damage to the pocket battleship Lützow and sinking the heavy cruiser Blücher, with heavy German losses that included many of the armed forces, Gestapo agents, and administrative personnel who were to have occupied the Norwegian capital.

Utilizing flash spotting, sound ranging and aerial reconnaissance from No. 16 Squadron, and Balloon Company of the Royal Flying Corps in the week before the battle, the counter battery artillery under command of Lieutenant-Colonel Andrew McNaughton fired 125, 900 shells, harassing an estimated 83 % of the German gun positions.

The night before the attack, artillery harassed German positions while a gas section of Royal Engineers, employing Livens Projectors, fired more than 40 drums of gas directly into the town of Givenchy-en-Gohelle to cause confusion.

As well as the Luftwaffes bombs, German heavy artillery ( which had just come within range ) also fired high-explosive shells into Dunkirk.

Another counterargument to the fifth column theory is that Polish troops were being targeted by advance units of the German regular army ( Heer ), or that the shots were fired by Polish soldiers in the confusion of the mass withdrawal.

The artillery pieces inflicted heavy damage on the German heavy cruiser Blücher, which was subsequently sunk by torpedoes fired from Oscarsborg's land based torpedo battery.

On the night of July 24 / 25, 1943, a German U-boat fired at least three shells to attack the " Ethyl-Dow Chemical Company " plant at " Kure's Beach " ( post-war: Kure Beach ), but instead hit the Cape Fear River.

British units displayed reckless determination ; one group of eight British machine guns fired over 70, 000 rounds in their efforts to stem the German advance.

Model of the multirole IDAS ( missile ) | IDAS missile of the German Navy, which can be fired from submerged anti-aircraft weapon systems.

He was one of eight journalists selected by the United States Army Air Forces to fly bombing raids over Germany in a B-17 Flying Fortress part of group called the Writing 69th, and during a mission fired a machine gun at a German fighter.

In October 1914, German troops fired fragmentation shells filled with a chemical irritant against British positions at Neuve Chapelle, though the concentration achieved was so small that it was barely noticed until they could not defend themselves.

The 8. 8 cm KwK 36 L / 56 () was an 8. 8 cm electrically fired tank gun used by the German Wehrmacht, during World War II.

A few shots fired from a machine gun on Siar over the heads of the tiny German garrison at Lorengau were the last shots fired in the battle.

While Hitler, the consummate politician, was sensitive to such developments, Ludwig Müller was apparently without clue: he fired and transferred pastors adhering to the Emergency League, and in April 1934 actually deposed the heads of the Württembergian church ( Bishop Theophil Wurm ) and of the Bavarian church ( Bishop Hans Meiser ); for they and the synodals of their church bodies continuously refused to declare the merger of their church bodies in the German Evangelical Church ( DEK ).

After making challenges which went unanswered Triton assumed it must have located a German U-boat and fired two torpedoes.

The aftermath of RAF raids at this time were also seen by the Germans: "... The RAF had bombed their own troops, and with tracer flying in all directions, German units fired on each other.