Peenemünde
Peenemünde is a port of Germany located on the offshore bar which limits the estuary of the Peene.
Old center of manufacture and tests, between 1937 and 1943, of the German flying bombs (V1, V2) directed by Walter Dornberger. This manufacture continued until the allied bombardment of 1943. After that the authorities moved it in the countryside, with Blizna in occupied Poland (General Government).
Wernher von Braun, which worked there, as well as a hundred of other engineers, went to the 7th American army the May 2nd 1945, then the base was invested by the 2nd Soviet army the May 5th (see Opération Paperclip).
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