Social History of Science
The first Allied expedition in search of German rocket technology, Poland, 1944
Shakhray S.M.
This article is dedicated to a previously little known topic—the first joint Anglo-American-Soviet reconnaissance expedition that gathered intelligence on the German V2 rocket in Poland. The expedition took place immediately after the occupation of territory by the Soviet Army, in particular at the German testing ground in Blizna, and at the experimental station in Debice. The author discusses the reasons for the quick termination of the cooperative effort in the sensitive area of military rocketry.
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Key words: English-American-Soviet expedition of 1944, V-2 missiles, немецкая ракетная техника
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Recommended bibliographic description
Shakhray S.M., The first Allied expedition in search of German rocket technology, Poland, 1944,
Voprosy Istorii Estestvoznaniia i Tekhniki [Studies in History of Science and Technology],
2013, vol. 34, no. 3, p. 138–155
© Studies in the History of Science and Technology: Quarterly scientific journal of the Russian Academy of Sciences (2015)
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