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DescriptionV-2 Rocket On Meillerwagen.jpg
English: V-2rocket on Meillerwagen at Operation Backfire near Cuxhaven in 1945
English Titles and Captions in Published Books
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]
Source
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 - ISBN0-7026-0008-3 and credited to: Imperial War Museum.
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* 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 #76-9076German 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 #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]
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]
Notes and references
↑ abcdeKennedy, Gregory P. (1983) Vengeance Weapon 2: The V-2 Guided Missile, Washington DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. p45,56,57
↑Engelmann, Joachim (1990) [1985] (in translated from german (v2 aufbruch zur raumfahrt) by dr edward force) V2 Dawn of the Rocket Age, Schiffer Military History, Atglen PA: Schiffer Publishing Ltd., pp. p34 ISBN: 3-7909-0241-1.
↑ abcOrdway, Frederick I, III; Sharpe, Mitchell R (1979) The Rocket Team, Apogee Books Space Series 36, Category:New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, pp. p318a,b
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