GERMAN ROCKETRY WORLD WAR II - STIFF, Ray C.

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Rocket Power Plants designed and constructed by Walter Werke, Kiel. Classified as RESTRICTED, this rare detailed study collates the latest intelligence gathered on the rocket drive for the Me163, the assisted take off (ATO) units for several conventional aircraft, and the rockets for the Henschel Hs293 and Hs117 radio-guided bombs, the Blohm and Voss BV143 rocket-assisted glide bomb, and the Enzian - a name familiar to devotees of Thomas Pynchon - a surface-to-air antiaircraft missile. Scarce with just a single copy traced at the National Aerospace Library, Farnborough.CIOS was established from SHAEF's G-2 (Intelligence) Division as part of Operation Paperclip, it was tasked with seeking out and assessing caches of scientific and technological secrets, hidden test sites, and underground factories with the aim of co-opting Nazi German weapon technologies for the coming Cold War with the Soviet Union. The author, a chemical engineering graduate from Texas Tech, was a member of the US Navy's Naval Technical Mission in Europe, activated in January 1945 to assist in this task. Stiff had been working on jet propulsion with the navy's Bureau of Aeronautics since 1941, and after the war he continued in rocketry becoming an executive for the Aerojet Engineering Corporation responsible for the engines for the Titan, Gemini, Viking, and Voyager projects, and for the main engine on the Apollo Command Service Module. This copy, numbered 150 of an unstated edition, was sent to the MSL in M

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