V2 rocket

The A4 rocket, better known as V2 (Vergeltungswaffe 2), was an early ballistic missile used by Germany during the later stages of World War II against mostly British and Belgian targets.

Missile

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  V2 replica in the Peenemünde museum, Germany
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  V2 replica, Peenemünde
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  V2 replica, Peenemünde
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  V2 replica, Peenemünde
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  V2 replica, Peenemünde
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  V2
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  V2
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  A4-Treibstoffpumpe
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  V2 fuel-turbopump
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  V2 rocket diagram (no labels)
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  V2 rocket diagram (numbered)
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  V2 rocket diagram (English labels)
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  V2 Rocket engine
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  V2 at a USAF testing ground
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  V2 at Russian testing ground
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  US Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) scientists J. D. Purcell, C. Y. Johnson, and F. S. Johnson among those recovering instruments from a V-2 used for upper atmospheric research above the New Mexico desert. This is V-2 number 54, launched January 18, 1951, (photo by Dr. Richard Tousey, NRL).
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  V-2 launch on September 29, 1949. Credit: Naval Research Laboratory.
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  Cosford museum

Impacts

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  Site of first V2 rocket to fall on London.
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  Aftermath of V2 bombing at Battersea, London, 27 January 1945.
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  Aftermath of a V2 rocket attack on the main intersection in Antwerp, Belgium, 27 November 1944

Other

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  Peenemunde
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  Peenemunde