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English: V-2 rocket on Meillerwagen at Operation Backfire near Cuxhaven in 1945
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- After the warhead was attached, the missile was transferred from the Vidalwagen to the Meilerwagen ('S.I. Negative #76-2755)[1]
- The Meiller trailer brings it to the firing position and erects it[2]
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Imperial War Museum - picture scanned by me Ian Dunster 13:57, 17 September 2005 (UTC) from: Weapons & War Machines compiled by Andrew Kershaw and Ian Close - Phoebus - 1976 - ISBN 0-7026-0008-3 and credited to: Imperial War Museum.
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Originally from en.wikipedia; description page is (was) here * 13:53, 17 September 2005 [[:en:User:Ian Dunster|Ian Dunster]] 800×312 (170,558 bytes) <span class="comment">(V-2 Rocket On Meillerwagen)</span>
English Captions from additional Operation Backfire photos
- S.I. Negative #76-15729 (vertical black & white V-2) British-collected V-2 material was shipped to the Krupp Naval Gun proving ground near Cuxhaven, Germany. German prisoners of war and civilian specialists assembled and launched three rockets in a British-supervised technical evaluation code-named "Operation Backfire"[1]
- S.I. Negative #76-9076 German workers affix an emblem to Operation Backfire Round #1, on 1 October 1945. After two launch attempts, the rocket was removed from the launch pad, recycled and finally flown three days later[1]
- S.I. Negative #A 5367 Liftoff of the first Operation Backfire flight, 2 October 1945[1]
- S.I. Negative #76-9075 (emblem on aft section of nude on barrel with "TARGETT& Co LTD" and number 2 in background) Emblem affixed to Operation Backfire Round #2. This was the first missile flown during Operation Backfire[1]
- Lining up gyroscopes of V-2 with theodolite at Operation Backfire, October 1945.[3]
- Lieutenant Colonel W. S. J Carter, Major General A. M. Cameron, Brigadier L. K. Lockhart, at Operation Backfire[3]
- A tense moment at Operation Backfire as five Russian officers show up instead of the announced three. The British stood firm and admitted only the three with credentials: Glushko, Pobedonostsev, and Sokolov.[3]
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[edit] Notes and references
- ↑ a b c d e Kennedy, Gregory P. (1983). Vengeance Weapon 2: The V-2 Guided Missile, p45,56,57, Washington DC: Smithsonian Institution Press.
- ↑ Engelmann, Joachim [1985] (1990). V2 Dawn of the Rocket Age (in translated from German (V2 Aufbruch zur Raumfahrt) by Dr Edward Force), p34, Atglen PA: Schiffer Publishing Ltd..
- ↑ a b c Ordway, Frederick I, III; Sharpe, Mitchell R (1979). The Rocket Team, p318a,b, New York: Thomas Y. Crowell.
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