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The Peenemünde Historical and Technical Information Centre opened in 1992 in the shelter control room and the area of the former power station and is an anchor point of ERIH, the European Route of Industrial Heritage.
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Peenemünde and Historical
* Official website of Peenemünde and the Historical Technical Museum ( English )
Peenemünde and Centre
One of these was the extension of the ' Army Research Center Peenemünde ' ( Heeresversuchsanstalt Peenemünde in German, abbreviated HVP ) and the ' Air Force Test Centre ' ( Erprobungsstelle der Luftwaffe in German ), Peenemünde-West.
Peenemünde and control
By 9 February 1942, Peenemünde engineer de Beek had documented the radio interference area of a V-2 as 10, 000 meters around the “ Firing Point ”, and the first successful A-4 flight on 3 October 1943, used radio control for Brennschluss.
However, the Operation Hydra bombing of Peenemünde did not affect the nearby Giant Würzburg at the Lubmin guidance and control station used for V-2 rocket.
Peenemünde and room
It became clearer that von Braun's designs were turning into real weapons, and Dornberger moved the team from the artillery testing grounds at Kummersdorf ( near Berlin ) to a small town, Peenemünde, on the island of Usedom on Germany's Baltic coast, in order to provide more room for testing and greater secrecy.
Peenemünde and area
After almost a year in the area around Peenemünde, Soviet officials moved most of the captured German rocket specialists to Gorodomlya Island on Lake Seliger, about northwest of Moscow.
Suspected locations in this area are the Veritas grounds between the petty islands of Ruden and Greifswalder Oie, and the Peenemünde shoals.
Besides many small playing fields, Air Warrior III had as one playing area a map of northern Europe with some real-life features labeled, although Berlin, the Kiel Canal, and Peenemünde were left unmarked.
In 1945, Kurt Debus was ordered to install a launch pad for testing A4-rockets in the area of Cuxhaven, as a replacement for Stand VII in Peenemünde ; however, the project could not be completed due to the military situation towards the end of the war.
Peenemünde and former
Numerous interrogations followed, concentrating on his former work on the development of rocket and jet aircraft in the OKH and RLM, at Peenemünde and the Heinkel factory.
Peenemünde and station
* August 17 – 18 ( overnight ) – 596 Royal Air Force bombers attack the German ballistic missile research station at Peenemünde for the first time in a raid especially designed to kill as many German scientists and other workers as possible before they can reach air raid shelters.
In August 1943 it was heavily damaged with a bomb attack aimed at the neighbouring Luftwaffe rocket research station in Peenemünde.
Peenemünde and is
* Peenemünde is a setting in the novels Fatherland, Gravity's Rainbow, Moonraker, The Rhinemann Exchange, The Way the Crow Flies, Space, and Vengeance 10.
* In the game Battlefield 1942: Secret Weapons of WWII, Peenemünde is a playable level.
* In the game Secret Weapons Over Normandy, Peenemünde is a playable level in the main campaign.
* In the novelization of the film Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, written by Peter George, an explanation is given that the title character, " Dr. Strangelove ", had been wounded, and these wounds had left him with only one hand, and wheelchair-bound, because of the bombings of Peenemünde while he worked there for Nazi Germany.
A different spelling is Heeresversuchsstelle Peenemünde, and Heeresanstalt Peenemünde appears on a German document with Wasserfall velocity calculations.
* February 21 – The last V-2-rocket is launched from Peenemünde.
* October 3 – The first A-4 rocket is successfully launched from Test Stand VII at Peenemünde, Germany.
The wind tunnel used by German scientists at Peenemünde prior to and during WWII is an interesting example of the difficulties associated with extending the useful range of large wind tunnels.
Pleasure steamers also ply between the resorts and Peenemünde on Usedom, where there is a connection to the Usedom Railway ( UBB ).
The Bramkamp movie include other dramatized sequences from the novel as well, while the main focus is on Peenemünde and the V2.
There is an infrequent ferry service from Peenemünde and Karlshagen.
* October 3-The first V-2 rocket is successfully launched from Test Stand VII at Peenemünde, Germany, flying a distance of 147 km and reaching a height of 84. 5 km, becoming the first man-made object to reach space.
Prüfstand VII is a 2002 German docudrama film directed by Robert Bramkamp, about the V-2 rocket and the rocket research in the Peenemünde Army Research Center.
Véronique is the designation of a French sounding rocket with liquid fuel drive that was developed partly by German scientists who worked in Peenemünde.
Peenemünde and .
This invention was picked up by someone in the team of scientists assembled at the Heeresversuchsanstalt in Peenemünde.
* 1942 – Spaceflight: The first successful launch of a V-2 / A4-rocket from Test Stand VII at Peenemünde, Germany.
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.
The Peenemünde establishment also developed other techniques, such as the first closed-circuit television system in the world, installed at Test Stand VII to track the launching rockets.
The chemist Magnus von Braun, the youngest brother of Wernher von Braun, was employed in the attempted development at Peenemünde of anti-aircraft rockets.
In November 1938, Walther von Brauchitsch ordered construction of an A-4 Production Plant at Peenemünde, and in January 1939, Walter Dornberger created a subsection of Wa Pruf 11 for planning the Peenemünde Production Plant project, headed by G. Schubert, a senior Army civil servant.
but after the end of July 1943 when the enormous hangar Fertigungshalle 1 ( F-1, Mass Production Plant No. 1 ) was just about to go into operation, Operation Hydra bombed Peenemünde.
In early September, Peenemünde machinery and personnel for production ( including Alban Sawatzki, Arthur Rudolph, and about ten engineers ) were moved to the Mittelwerk, which also received machinery and personnel from the two other planned A-4 assembly sites.
On October 13, 1943, the Peenemünde prisoners from the small F-1 concentration camp boarded rail cars bound for Kohnstein mountain.
A year later on July 18, August 4, and August 25, the US Eighth Air Force conducted three additional Peenemünde raids to counter suspected hydrogen peroxide production.
For people being relocated from Peenemünde, the new organization was to be designated Entwicklungsgemeinschaft Mittelbau () and Kammler's order to relocate to Thuringia arrived by teleprinter on January 31, 1945.
The last V-2 launch at Peenemünde happened in February 1945, and on May 5, 1945, the soldiers of the Soviet 2nd Belorussian Front under General Konstantin Rokossovsky captured the seaport of Swinemünde and all of Usedom Island.
More destruction of the technical facilities of Peenemünde took place between 1948 and 1961.
The gas plant for the production of liquid oxygen still lies in ruins at the entrance to Peenemünde.
* In the novels of the Colonization Series, Peenemünde survived World War II and later became a major space exploration launch center.
* The Nazi occupation of Poland and the Allied bombing of Peenemünde are depicted in the British feature film Battle of the V-1 ( 1958 ) ( called Missiles From Hell in the United States and some other countries ), which starred the actor Michael Rennie.
* In the second book of the Danger Boy series of time travel tales, written by Mark London Williams, Dragon Sword, Peenemünde becomes a key setting in this and in the further novels.
* In the movie The Cockpit, Peenemünde becomes a test site for atomic bombs.
* In the film The Hindenburg ( 1975 ), the German countess played by Anne Bancroft leaves Germany because her estate in Peenemünde has been confiscated by the Nazi Germans.
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