File:Dora - production.jpg

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English: Underneath Kohnstein Mountain, about 250 [V-2] missiles were found in various stages of completion on the Mittelwerk assembly line (S.I. Negative #75-15871).[1]

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  • An A-4 at the "Central Works" in Niedersachswerfen after the Americans arrived on July[sic] 3, 1945[2]
Source US Army signal corps.
Author User Ericd on en.wikipedia
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Originally from en.wikipedia; description page is (was) here * 23:01, 26 January 2003 [[:en:User:Ericd|Ericd]] 276×190 (12,454 bytes)

A closer image and without the soldier:

  • An A4 propulsion unit shown on dolly inside the underground assembly facility at Niedersachswerfen near Nordhausen, Germany.[3]
  • the A-4 rocket's combustion chamber. This photo was taken at the Central Works factory at Nordhausen, which was built underneath the Harz Mountains.[4]

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  1. ↑ Kennedy, Gregory P. (1983) Vengeance Weapon 2: The V-2 Guided Missile, Washington DC: Smithsonian Institution Press NOTE: The image in Vengeance Weapon 2: The V-2 Guided Missile has the rocket nozzle to the right.
  2. ↑ 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. p32 ISBN: 3-7909-0241-1. NOTE: The Americans arrived in May, not July, 1945.
  3. ↑ Ordway, Frederick I, III; Sharpe, Mitchell R (1979) The Rocket Team, Apogee Books Space Series 36, Category:New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, pp. p78e
  4. ↑ Johnson, David (1981/1982) V-1, V-2: Hitler’s Vengeance on London, Stein and Day, pp. p129 ISBN: 0-8128-2858-5.

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