The Peenemunde Raid: The Night of 17-18 August 1943

By Martin Middlebrook

On August 17, 1943, RAF Bomber Command got down to smash the key study institution the place Nazi scientists have been constructing state of the art rockets. even if the bombing "crept again" from its goal, and the cloudless sky made the British airplane ideal objectives, they succeeded in disrupting Hitler's guns application. Containing the remembrances of over four hundred humans from either sides--flight crews, researchers on the web site, and international employees pressured to paintings there--this vintage background is carefully irresistible.

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The lively leader known as a convention of all his senior males to prepare either the instant activity of restoration and the swiftest attainable re-establishment of ‘normal work’. This mid-morning convention will be an everyday characteristic through the restoration interval. Dornberger’s males usually discovered themselves doing strange jobs: Professor Wierer, a scientist, was once ordered to supervise the gathering of all of the lifeless our bodies, and a message quickly got here again that he wanted twenty lorries. most likely inside thirty-six hours of the bombing, anyone – it's not identified who – introduced into use a brand new name as a Deckname or ‘cover identify’ for the institution. rather than ‘Heeresversuchs Anstalt, Peenemünde’, ‘HAP’ for brief, this army unit was once now to be referred to as ‘Heeres. Artillerie Park Nr eleven’ (Army Artillery Depot No. 11); this innocent-sounding identify with an analogous initials used to be henceforth used on all correspondence. Zinnowitz, the 1st village outdoor the bombing quarter, turned the bottom for the therapy of the wounded and for evacuation. the most sanatorium there came upon itself with just one surgeon, and he used to be no longer a health professional; the remainder have been attending a convention at Stettin. thankfully, an army health professional who was once a sufferer at a close-by health facility had had adventure of box surgical procedure in Russia and was once capable of take care of the worst casualties till surgical groups arrived. in simple terms Germans have been handled right here. a few of the frivolously wounded and many of the international wounded have been taken additional afield; one Pole says that, even though the foreigners needed to wait till the Germans in his get together have been sorted, the clinical remedy he did obtain then and in resulting months used to be first-class. the college at Zinnowitz turned the organizing centre for evacuation. All reviews say that this proceeded easily. those that have been bombed out have been quickly came upon houses within the surrounding sector, or even households whose houses had no longer been hit have been now keen to depart Peenemünde. one other crew to go away was once a celebration of military apprentices, despatched to their houses on depart. We have been mothered alongside and proven loads of sympathy simply because we have been so younger and we have been excused the clearing-up paintings after the raid. yet you recognize what emotions have been like at the moment; we have been nearly indignant via this attention. We have been, in any case, fourteen to eighteen years previous. (Gerhard Rühr) The bombing of the employees’ camp at Trassenheide posed a critical lodging challenge. even though there has been a lot heavy paintings ready to be performed, it used to be made up our minds that these males whose huts have been destroyed and others whose huts have been wanted for bombed-out Germans needs to be despatched away. lengthy columns of Poles, Russians and others have been hence to be visible tramping down the line to Zinnowitz with the intention to be wear trains to Swinemünde. a few might quickly go back to a brief camp erected within the woods, yet many had noticeable their final of Peenemünde. a lot of these routine, of the wounded, of civilians being evacuated, of labourers being moved out, signified the start of a chronic rundown within the dimension and significance of the group.

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