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No. 540 Squadron RAF Flight Sergeant E. P. H. Peek in a de Havilland Mosquito PR4[7] returned to Leuchars airfield on June 23, 1943 with Peenemünde photos showing a pair of low-loader vehicles[8] holding a pair of rockets.[2][7] ChronologyThe first RAF photo on April 22, 1943 of a 1 1/2 mm "object" -- A-4 model 21 within Test Stand VII -- was not initially identified as a rocket.[2] After reviewing Peek's June 23 photo, Flight Lieutenant Andre' J. A. Kenny changed the designation of the 1 1/2 -mm-long-specks from 'objects' to 'torpedoes'.[2] Then more than a year after the initial rocket photos (even after Operation Hydra had bombed Peenemünde on August 17/18, 1943 based on other intelligence), a May 5, 1944 photo of Blizna by the Photographic Reconnaissance Unit (PRU) at a new base at San Severo Italy showed a rocket on a narrow-gauge railway line,[2] but the Crossbow committee put the photographs aside.[6] Finally, after the report of the Bug river wreckage, Reginald Victor Jones methodically examined the photographs of Blizna through the night of June 2/3, 1944 and found a faint white line image of the rocket on a loop of the narrow-gauge railway.[6] Kenny subsequently called back earlier Peenemünde photographs and identified several finned 'objects': on railway trucks, outside tall upright buildings, and on the traverser carriage serving the ellipse; as well as evidence of a heavy and violent explosion with blast damages to buildings at the 'launching pad'.[2] |
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Other versions | Historisch-technisches Informationszentrum Peenemünde, Life magazine on 12/25/44 pg 48 |
References and footnotes
- ↑ McGovern, J (1964) Crossbow and Overcast, Category:New York: W. Morrow, pp. p120c NOTE: The image in Crossbow and Overcast has a scale labeled with 0' and 200'
- ↑ a b c d e f Irving, David (1964) The Mare's Nest, London: William Kimber and Co, pp. p50,64a,65,67,69,265 NOTE: The image in The Mare's Nest depicts a wider area including the shoreline and part of the Luftwaffe area.
- ↑ Dornberger, Walter (1952 -- US translation V-2 Viking Press:New York, 1954) V2--Der Schuss ins Weltall, Esslingan: Bechtle Verlag, pp. p xvi
- ↑ Russell, Francis; Editors of Time-Life Books (1981) The Secret War, World War II, Alexandria VA: Time-Life Books Inc., pp. p162 ISBN: 0-8094-2546-7 (retail ed.). NOTE: The image in The Secret War has a scale labeled with 0' and _00'
- ↑ Baumann, Paul R.. Geo/SAT 2. HISTORY OF REMOTE SENSING, AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY. College at Oneonta SUNY. Retrieved on January 24, 2008.
- ↑ a b c Garliński, Józef (1978) Hitler's Last Weapons: The Underground War against the V1 and V2, Category:New York: Times Books, pp. p100e,146
- ↑ a b Collier, Basil (1976) [1964] The Battle of the V-Weapons, 1944-1945, Yorkshire: The Emfield Press, pp. p32,59 ISBN: 0 7057 0070 4.
- ↑ Cooksley, Peter G (1979) Flying Bomb, Category:New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, pp. p53
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