The Rocket Team Book

Foreword Wernher von Braun 5 Preface to 1979 Edition 6 Preface to 2003 Edition 9 Chapter 1 "Take Us to Ike!" 13 Chapter 2 Countdown at Raketenflugplatz, Berlin 20 Chapter 3 From Berlin to the Baltic 26 Chapter 4 The Flowering of Peenemunde 31 Chapter 5 Producing the Missiles 51 Chapter 6 Intelligence and Reconnaissance 71 Chapter 7 Attacking the Missile Installations 84 Chapter 8 Events in Poland and Sweden 96 Chapter 9 A4 to V-2: The Final Months 115 Chapter 10 V-Weapon Offensive 124 Chapter 11 Defense Against the V-Weapons 147 Chapter 12 Effectiveness of the V-Weapon Campaign 170 Chapter 13 Exodus from Peenemunde 180 Chapter 14 Roundup in Bavaria 192 Chapter 15 Backfire at Cuxhaven 207 Chapter 16 The New Beginning 217 Chapter 17 V-2s on the Steppes 222 Chapter 18 V-2s in the Desert 239 Chapter 19 Thrust into Space 252 Epilogue 278 Appendix A Production Quantities of A4s 281 Appendix B Addenda on Intelligence 284 The Others 288 Remembering my father, Mitchell R. Sharpe, Jr 290 List of Illustrations 291 Bibliography 299 Index 316