A V-2 missile launch by the United Kingdom | British during Operation Backfire ( WWII ) | Operation Backfire

A production line was nearly ready at Peenemünde when the Operation Hydra attack caused the Germans to move production to the Mittelwerk in the Kohnstein where 5, 200 V-2 rockets were built.

* Michał Wojewódzki, Akcja V-1, V-2 ( Operation V-1, V-2 ), 3rd ed., rev., Warsaw, Pax, 1975.

) 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.

* Operation Sandy, a test launch of a V-2 rocket in 1947 from the aircraft carrier USS Midway

A direct descendant of the German V-2 rocket, the missile was the foundation for the Redstone rocket family, It was developed by a team of predominantly German rocket engineers relocated to the United States after World War II as part of Operation Paperclip.

For example, the British counter measures against the V-2 was called Operation Crossbow.

The first models were being tested in March 1943, but a major setback occurred in August 1943 when Dr. Walter Thiel was killed during the bombing of Operation Hydra, the start of the Operation Crossbow bombing campaign against V-2 production.

Military operations were also conducted to obtain intelligence on the enemy's technology e. g. the Bruneval Raid for German radar and Operation Most III for the German V-2.

Following WWII von Braun and other lead Nazi scientists were secretly transferred to the United States to work directly for the U. S. Army through Operation Paperclip developing the V-2 into the weapon for the United States.

In mid-August 1945, after taking part in Operation Backfire, Dornberger was escorted from Cuxhaven to London for interrogation by the British War Crimes Investigation Unit in connection with the use of slave labor in the production of V-2 rockets ; he was subsequently transferred and detained for two years at Bridgend in South Wales.

General Crüwell remained a prisoner and on March 22, 1943, was intentionally placed with another POW, General von Thoma, who during the meeting disclosed intelligence regarding the V-2 rocket and used for RAF Operation Hydra bombing raids on Peenemünde, i. e. ; surprise that London was not yet in ruins from German rockets being tested at a ' special ground near Kummersdorf ' he had visited.

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.

A German V-2 rocket fired by the British during Operation Backfire, 1946.

Also, the Operation Hydra bombing raid on Peenemünde, purportedly carried out on the basis of Home Army intelligence, did delay the V-2 by six to eight weeks.

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In 1944 Japan launched its last major offensive, Operation Ichi-Go, against the KMT that severely weakened Chiang Kai-shek's forces.

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Operation Repulse, which took place in Bastogne on December 27, 1944, as part of the Battle of the Bulge, glider pilots, although flying directly through enemy fire, were able to land, delivering the badly needed ammunition, gasoline, and medical supplies that enabled defenders against the German offensive to persevere and secure the ultimate victory.

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While retaining his professorship at Duke after the beginning of World War II, Linebarger began serving as a second lieutenant of the United States Army, where he was involved in the creation of the Office of War Information and the Operation Planning and Intelligence Board.

Combat operations resumed in the spring of 2003, with MPSRON TWO sortieing to the Persian Gulf for Operation Iraqi Freedom, and bombing operations began again, this time against Iraq.

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Operation Searchlight began on 25 March 1971 and extremely worsend order.

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