Operation Backfire was a military scientific operation of the Western Allies during and after the Second World War that was performed mainly by British personnel. The operation was designed to complet
A German V-2 rocket fired by the British during Operation Backfire (1945)
A4-Rocket of Operation Backfire near Cuxhaven (1945)
Present day site of the V2 launch tests in the Werner forest near Cuxhaven
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Arthur Louis Hugo Rudolph was a German rocket engineer who was a leader of the effort to develop the V-2 rocket. After World War II, the United States government's Office of Strategic Services brought
Operation Backfire (World War II)
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Rudolph showing a model of the Saturn V
Rocket vehicle on dynamometer at Heylandt