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DOCUMENT Full-Text Mark C. Cleary.

This study begins with a summary of the major events leading up to the REDSTONE missile program at Cape Canaveral. It includes an overview of RAF Bomber Command’s raid against Peenemünde in August 1943 and the U.S. Army’s recruitment of Wernher von Braun and his ‘hand-picked’ team of rocket experts in 1945. It continues with a sketch of the Army’s early missile projects at Fort Bliss, Texas, and the recommendations that shaped the REDSTONE missile.

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