Operation Hydra (1943)
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Operation Hydra was an attack by RAF Bomber Command on a German scientific research centre at Peenemünde on the night of 17/18 August 1943. Group Captain John Searby, commanding officer of No. 83 Squa
British plan for the Peenemünde raid
Target 3/Air/389, Attack order with targets highlighted
The Peenemünde Army Research Center was founded in 1937 as one of five military proving grounds under the German Army Weapons Office. Several German guided missiles and rockets of World War II were de
Operation Hydra (1943)
…Operation Hydra was an attack by RAF Bomber Command on a German scientific research centre at Peenemünde on the night of 17/18 August 1943. Group Captain John Searby, commanding officer of No. 83 Squadron RAF, commanded the operation, the first time that…
1943 RAF photo-recon of Test Stand VII at the Peenemünde Army Research Center
A launchpad at Peenemünde as depicted in a miniature at the Deutsches Museum, Munich
V-2 launch in Peenemünde (1943)
V2 in the Peenemünde Museum