Britain in Space
The British Operation Backfire Tests at Altenwalde/Cuxhaven 1945
All right," the critics said, "let's build the super V2 if we must...but let's have less of this worship of things German. The Germans didn't win the War." It was a danger signal, a denial of science. The man who builds a swing doesn't plant a tree and wait for it to grow. He selects an established tree and secures his ropes to the stoutest branch.
Ivan Southall from his book Woomera, 1962
A V2 launched as part of Operation Backfire
Picture courtesy of:
Tracy Dungan of V2ROCKET.COM
MORE TO COME...
Douglas Ian Holland Notes:
Stephen was obviously going to add to this at some point, but it never happened.
However there is more on Operation Backfire here:
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