Operation Paperclip page 2

Operation Paperclip page 2 by ric Gustafson


On December 9 1944 in the dark pine forest of Coesfeld Germany, a celebration was about to happen. In the forest was a eight hundred year old castle named Varlar. For centuries, the castle had been a monastery for Benedictine monks. On this cold December night, the grounds of the castle were being used for a different purpose.
Army technicians were making final adjustments to portable rocket launch pads. On each stood a missile. The V-2 rocket was the most advanced flying weapon ever created. It was 46 feet long and carried a warhead with 2,000 pounds of explosives in it's nose cone. It could travel a distance of 190 miles at speeds of up to five times the speed of sound. It's earlier version the V-1 flying bomb had been raining down terror on cities across Northern Europe and England especially London. The V-2 was faster and more fearsome. No Allied fighter could shoot it down from the sky because of it's altitude and the speed of it's descent. It was terrifying when it crashed into a population center. The explosion spread up to twenty miles. Hitler had always boasted of these secret weapons.
Cities in Northern Europe and England braced for other so called Nazi secret weapons.


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Peace and God's blessings. Love Ric