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Keywords: Project Paperclip Team at Fort Bliss crop.jpg Group of 104 German rocket scientists in 1946 including Wernher von Braunhttp //www redstone army mil/history/archives/vonbraun/welcome html and Arthur Rudolph The group had been subdivided into two sections a smaller one at White Sands Proving Grounds for test launches and the larger at Fort Bliss for research <ref name Huzel> Peenemünde to Canaveral 1962 Prentice Hall Englewood Cliffs NJ p210 214 NOTES <br> p187 Lt Col Dr Herbert Axster was a Peenemünde staff officer <br> p210 In addition to Huzel and Stuhlinger Dr Lippisch was on the Central Falls <br> </ref> Many had worked to develop the V-2 Rocket at Peenemünde Germany and came to the U S after World War II subsequently working on various rockets including the Explorer 1 Space rocket and the Saturn rocket at NASA Titles and Captions in Published Books Von Braun Rocket Team at Fort Bliss Texashttp //ntrs nasa gov/search jsp R MSFC-8915531 Members of the German rocket team who worked on rockets for Army Ordnance under Paperclip are shown at White Sands Proving Ground New Mexico in 1946<ref name Hunt> cite book Hunt Linda Secret Agenda The United States Government Nazi Scientists and Project Paperclip 1945 to 1990 1991 St Martin's Press New York 0312055102 p148h NOTE The caption by Hunt is for the photo that includes Mrazek </ref> Peenemünde's core personnel is reassembled at White Sands New Mexico in 1946 <ref name Neufeld> cite book Neufeld Michael J The Rocket and the Reich Peenemünde and the Coming of the Ballistic Missile Era 1995 The Free Press New York p210h NOTE The caption by Neufeld is for the photo that includes Mrazek </ref> Von Braun group at White Sands Proving Ground 1946<ref name Ordway> cite book Ordway Frederick I III Sharpe Mitchell R The Rocket Team Apogee Books Space Series 36 1979 Thomas Y Crowell New York p318d NOTES <br> p40 Professor Buchhold had been the chair of electrical engineering at Darmstadt p41 Professor Carl Wagner was a physical chemist who would follow von Braun to the US p293 Dr Ernst Geissler was the chief of the unit studying the Wasserfall flight dynamics and control system at Bansin and Pudalga 27 km SE of Peenemünde <br> p301 After evacuating Peenemünde von Braun his brother Magnus Kurt Lindner and von Braun's secretary Hannelore Bannasch found quarters in Wilheim 32 km S of Oberammergau<br> p302 Holker was a flight dynamicist p358 A third group from Landshut left Le Havre on November 21 and arrived at New York on December 6 1945 via the USS Florence Nightingale AP-70 p392 Hans Palaoro completed a meticoulous drawing of a proposed ramjet engine while at Ft Bliss his boss was Dr Gerhard Heller <br> p393 Grüne assembled gyroscopes for WSMR V-2 rockets<br>p420 Grüne and Hannes Lührsen converted part of a former Ft Bliss army hospital into a Guidance and Control Laboratory for Dr Theodor Buchhold<br> p393 Gerd de Beek was the Peenemünde chief illustrator<br> p396 In October 1947 Herbert Dobrick Friedrich Dohm Kurt Neuhoffer and Klaus Scheuffelen were the first to live in the local Ft Bliss economy while working on the Loki missile by Bendix Corporation's Pioneer Division Teterboro NJ which was the follow-on to the German Taifun missile p416 Wilhelm Angele and Hans Friedrich designed and built the steeple for a former funeral home when the German families helped to organize the St Mark's Evangelical Lutheran Church in Huntsville AL <br> p416 St Mark's Evangelical Lutheran Church Huntsville AL members such as Martin Schilling Johann Tschinkel Hans Fichtner Herbert Furmann and Otto Eisenhardt worked on refurbishing the former funeral home acquired for the church <br> p416 Eagle Scouts of Boy Scout Troop 13 St Mark's Evangelical Lutheran Church Huntsville AL included sons of rocket scientists Erich Ball Eberhard Emil Hellebrand Bernd Gerhard Heller Rainer and Martin Schilling Harmuth p416 Hans Palaoro completed a meticoulous drawing of a proposed ramjet engine while at Ft Bliss his boss was Dr Gerhard Heller <br> p416 Wilhelm Angele and Hans Friedrich designed and built the steeple for a former funeral home when the German families helped to organize the St Mark's Evangelical Lutheran Church in Huntsville AL <br> p420 Hans Maus was in charge of the Manufacturing Division of the Guided Missile Development Center<br> p420 Grüne and Hannes Lührsen converted part of a former Ft Bliss army hospital into a Guidance and Control Laboratory for Dr Theodor Buchhold<br> p422 Walter Schwidetsky who had arrived in the US with von Braun worked on the Atlas project p451 Wilhelm Angele developed a machine to produce spheres with roundess to one millionth of an inch-- one was used in a space experiment to prove Einstein's theory of relativity<br> p451 Karl Heimburg and Bernhard Tessmann were experts in rocket testing<br> p451 Walter Burose Hans Hüter Josef Böhm and Gerhard Heller are buried at the Maple Hill Cemetary in Huntsville AL<br> p451 Hans Paul was an expert in heat transfer p451 After retirement Dr Werner Sieber was a materials specialist who studied solar-energy collectors at the Johnson Environmental and Energy Center at the Univ of Alabama at Huntsville<br></ref> NASA-image http //nix larc nasa gov/info; id MSFC-8915531 NIX MSFC-8915531 http //mix msfc nasa gov/abstracts php p 840 MIX 840 after January 11 1946<br>Chronology Most subjects in this photo were in Shipment 1<ref name Huzel/> that traveled to the US on the SS Argentina that arrived on November 16 1945 <ref> cite web http //moore-mccormack com/SS-Argentina-1938/SS-Argentina-1938-Timeline htm html S S Argentina Timeline Moore-McCormack Lines Ocean Liners 2008-03-02 Bill Vinson and Ginger Quering Casey </ref> Shipment 3<ref name Huzel/> arrived via the Victory ship Central Falls on February 3 1946<ref name Ordway/> included Dieter Huzel who MSFC does not list as in the photo However since subjects 7 22 and 77 are unidentified by the MSFC image key additional personnel listed at Fort Bliss in January 1947 by the JIOA<ref name JIOA> cite web http //www scientistsandfriends com Microsoft Word Objective List of German and Austrian Scientists 2008-01-14 Joint Intelligence Objectives Agency </ref> are included in the Alphabetical list below for reference One Argentina passenger was Magnus von Braun who is pictured at Dornberger-Axter-von Braun gif and has a similar appearance to subject 7 <br>The first group of seven prior to Shipment 1 including Wernher von Braun had departed Orly Field in France on September 18 1945 in a C-54 Skymaster to Newcastle Army Air Base in the US are in the image but six of that group without von Braun did not leave Aberdeen Proving Ground for El Paso until January 11 1946 <ref name Ordway/> Additionally Shipment 2<ref name Huzel/> arrived on the USS Florence Nightingale that reportedly docked on 8 April 1946 However a different source claims the Florence Nightingale group arrived December 6 1945 and included http //www astronautix com/astros/linnberg htm Hans Lindenberg <ref name Ordway/> and Huzel confirms being informed on arrival at Fort Hunt VA that Hans Lindenberg had died at Fort Bliss Huzel's group departed for Fort Bliss on February 21 1946 <ref name Huzel/> xx PD-USGov A similar photo of the group that includes the missing Mrazek SI neg no 77-14246 <ref name Neufeld/> can be viewed along with an image key at http //history msfc nasa gov/vonbraun/photo/cf~40s html Wernher von Braun 1940's Gallery Also 100px Imagemap and Alphabetical Listing ImageNote 1 67 591 55 76 2964 858 2 ImageNoteEnd 1 ImageNote 2 68 501 57 76 2964 858 2 ImageNoteEnd 2 ImageNote 3 131 520 61 71 2964 858 2 ImageNoteEnd 3 ImageNote 4 226 596 56 70 2964 858 2 ImageNoteEnd 4 ImageNote 5 215 536 69 49 2964 858 2 ImageNoteEnd 5 ImageNote 6 267 459 39 50 2964 858 2 ImageNoteEnd 6 ImageNote 7 317 491 46 64 2964 858 2 ImageNoteEnd 7 ImageNote 8 366 515 52 51 2964 858 2 ImageNoteEnd 8 ImageNote 9 344 569 57 68 2964 858 2 9 Axter Dr Herbert 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Magnus<REF NAME JIOA/> Von Braun Argentina group - 73 Dr Wernher Von Braun September group - Erhardt<REF NAME JIOA/> Bruenecke - 80 Dr Theodor Buchhold - 101 Walter Burose - 92 Konrad K Dannenberg Argentina group - 3 Dr Kurt Debus - 17 Friedrich Dhom - Herbert<REF NAME JIOA/> Dobrick - 28 Gerhard P Drawe Argentina group - 21 Friedrich Duerr Argentina group - 26 Otto K Eisenhardt Argentina group - 42 Hans Fichtner Argentina group - 38 Alfred J Finzel Argentina group - 4 Dr Edward Fischel - 102 Karl Fleischer Argentina group - 15 Dr Hans Friedrich - 39 Herbert Fuhrmann Argentina group - 20 Dr Ernst Geissler Argentina group - 103 Werner Gengelbach Argentina group - 71 Dieter E Grau - 5 Dr Hans F Gruene Argentina group - 41 Herbert Guendel - Johann<REF NAME JIOA/> Gustav - 43 Dr Karl Hager Argentina group - 16 Guenther H Haukohl Argentina group - 19 Karl L Heimburg - 96 Emil A H Hellebrand Argentina group - 29 Gerhard Heller - 12 Bruno K Helm Argentina group - Alfred H<REF NAME JIOA/> Henning - 35 Bruno K Heusinger Argentina group - 105 Guenther Hintze - 82 Otto Hirschler Argentina group - 75 Otto A Hoberg Argentina group - 48 Dr Rudolf Hoelker Argentina group - Helmut http //www astronautix com/astros/hoelzer htm Hoelzer - 13 Oscar Holderer Argentina group - Helmut<REF NAME JIOA/> Horn Argentina group - 97 Hans H Hosenthein Argentina group - Hans<REF NAME JIOA/> Hueter Argentina group - Dieter K F <REF NAME JIOA/> Huzel Central Falls group<ref name Huzel/> - 70 Walter W Jacobi Argentina group - 2 Wilhelm Jungert September group - 49 Erich K Kaschig Argentina group - 65 Ernst K Klauss Argentina group - Johann<REF NAME JIOA/> Klein Argentina group - 44 Werner R Kuers Argentina group - 67 Hermann Lange Argentina group - Hans Lindenberg Florence Nightingale group<ref name Huzel/> - 58 Hans J Lindenmayr Argentina group - 1 Kurt Lindner Argentina group - 24 Hannes Luehersen - Carl Heinz<REF NAME JIOA/> Mandel - Dr William Mrazek - 46 Hans H Maus - 69 Helmut Merk Argentina group - 99 Dr Joseph Michel Argentina group - 23 Hans W Milde - 91 Heinz Millinger - 14 Rudolf Minning - 31 Dr J W Muehlner - 37 Dr Fritz Mueller Argentina group - 94 Erich W Neubert September group - Kurt Kunibert Karlmann<REF NAME JIOA/> Neuhoefer Argentina group - 36 Max E Novak Argentina group - 68 Robert Paetz - 93 Hans R Palaoro - 25 Kurt E Patt Argentina group - 60 Hans G Paul Argentina group - 83 Theodor A Poppel September group - 81 Dr Eberhard Friedrich Michael Rees September group - Walther Johannes<REF NAME JIOA/> Riedel - 64 Gerhard H Reisig - 50 Werner Rosinski - 62 Ludwig Roth Argentina group - 61 Heinrich C Rothe - 32 Dr Arthur Rudolph - 51 Heinz Ludwig Schnarowski Argentina group - 100 Klaus Eduard Scheufelen - 56 Dr Martin Schilling Argentina group - 88 Rudolf Karl Hans Schlidt Argentina group - 8 Dr Helmuth Schlitt Argentina group - Helmut Heinrich<REF NAME JIOA/> Schmidt Argentina group - 57 Albert E Schuler Argentina group - 76 William A Schulze September group - 72 Friedrich Schwarz - 47 Dr Walter Hans Schwidetzky September group - Karl<REF NAME JIOA/> Sendler Argentina group - Eberhard Julius<REF NAME JIOA/> Spohn - 95 Dr Werner Sieber - 63 Dr Ernst Steinhoff Argentina group - 89 Dr Wolfgang Steurur Argentina group - 40 Dr Ernst Stuhlinger Central Falls group<ref name Huzel/> - 27 Dr Johann G Tschinkel Argentina group - 18 Bernhard Tessmann Argentina group - 78 Dr Adolf K Thiel - 54 Werner Tiller - 53 Arthur Urbanski Argentina group - 52 Fritz Vandersee Argentina group - 85 Werner E Voss - 10 Theodor K Vowe - 66 Dr Hermann Weidner - 79 Walter Wiesman - 74 Albin E Wittmann - 55 Hugo Woerdemann Argentina group - 87 Albert Zeiler - 59 Helmut Zoike Additional German World War II rocket scientists recruited to US locations other than Fort Bliss many to Wright Field included Werner K Dahm Walter Dornberger Ernst Eckert Krafft Ehricke Walter Häussermann Rudolph Hermann Hermann Kurzweg Hermann Oberth Georg Rickhey and Harry Ruppe References and footnotes 2 pages Black and white group photographs of men Group photographs of men wearing lounge suits Black and white photographs of Texas Walter Dornberger 19460100 Herbert Axster Hans Lindenberg 19460100 Bernhard Tessmann 19460100Dieter Huzel 194601 Group photographs Operation Paperclip 1949 “1990 at Fort Bliss
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