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American History Operation Paperclip

Peenemuende team

The Peenemunde Army Research Center was founded in 1937, as a military proving ground under the German Army Weapons Office, as one of the five built. The site was moved to the Northern part of the penisula of the Baltic island of Usedom, paying the town of Wolgast in the process.

Raids by the British forces happened in order to combat the launches and developement of the V-2 rockets by targeting the living quarters and construction rooms. V-2 production was moved to Mittelwerk and Peenemunde was evacuated. The last V-2 launch from the base was February 1945, and on May 1945.

Wernher von Braun was the technical director with nine major departments under him:

1. Technical Design Office
2. Aeroballistics and Mathematics Laboratory
3. Wind tunnel
4. Materials Laboratory
5. Flight, Guidence, and Telemetering Devices
6. Develpoment and Fabrication Laboratory( Run by Arthur Rudolph )
7. Test Laboratory
8. Future Projects Office
9. Purchasing Office

This team was a major part of the list of scientists that were to be found and brought back to the US in Operation paperclip, being of large importance in the US space industry later on in their lives.

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Twelve Scientific Specialists of the Peenemuende Team Twelve scientific specialists of the Peenemuende team at the front of Building 4488, Redstone Arsenal, Huntsville, Alabama. They led the Army's space efforts at ABMA before transfer of the team to National Aeronautic and Space Administration (NASA), George C. Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC). (Left to right) Dr. Ernst Stuhlinger, Director, Research Projects Office; Dr. Helmut Hoelzer, Director, Computation Laboratory: Karl L. Heimburg, Director, Test Laboratory; Dr. Ernst Geissler, Director, Aeroballistics Laboratory; Erich W. Neubert, Director, Systems Analysis Reliability Laboratory; Dr. Walter Haeussermarn, Director, Guidance and Control Laboratory; Dr. Wernher von Braun, Director Development Operations Division; William A. Mrazek, Director, Structures and Mechanics Laboratory; Hans Hueter, Director, System Support Equipment Laboratory;Eberhard Rees, Deputy Director, Development Operations Division; Dr. Kurt Debus, Director Missile Firing Laboratory; Hans H. Maus, Director, Fabrication and Assembly Engineering Laboratory
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