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    service for the village is available at the Peenemünde Airfield. During the 10th and 11th centuries, Peenemünde was part of the region of Circipania, an...
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    The Peenemünde Army Research Center (German: Heeresversuchsanstalt Peenemünde, HVP) was founded in 1937 as one of five military proving grounds under...
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  • German A-4 test rocket launched on 20 June 1944, at the Peenemünde Army Research Center in Peenemünde. It was the first human-made object to reach outer space...
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    V-2 rocket (category Peenemünde Army Research Center and Airfield)
    at Peenemünde to initiate the funding of university research to solve rocket problems.: 40  By late 1941, the Army Research Center at Peenemünde possessed...
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    Peenemünde Airfield (IATA: PEF, ICAO: EDCP) is an airfield on the Baltic Sea coast, north of Peenemünde, Germany. Today, round trips in light aircraft...
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    The Peenemünde Historical Technical Museum (German: Historisch-Technisches Museum Peenemünde or HTM), former "Peenemünde Information Centre for History...
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    worked on Nazi Germany’s guided missile development and production at the Peenemünde Army Research Center and the Mittelwerk from 1943-1945. At age 26, he...
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    Wernher von Braun (category Peenemünde Army Research Center and Airfield)
    out the Peenemünde documents, enabling the scientists to continue their rocketry experiments. Finally, von Braun and his remaining Peenemünde staff (see...
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  • The bombing of Peenemünde in World War II was carried out on several occasions as part of the overall Operation Crossbow to disrupt German secret weapon...
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    leader of Nazi Germany's V-2 rocket programme and other projects at the Peenemünde Army Research Centre. After the war, the US Nazi scientist recruitment...
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