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Van Valkenburgh, Christopher
Fifty Years of Silence; Ordnance Technical Intelligence Team Depot O-644, Paris, France, 1944-1945.


Paperback : 324 pages, ISBN-13 : 979-8669220907; Product Dimensions : 8.5 x 0.77 x 11 inches

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08KH2L8NP

For 75 years, this story has been untold. Over 200 never-before released photos of captured enemy equipment being readied for shipment from Depot O-644 Paris, France, for evaluation at Aberdeen Proving Grounds during WWII. Many of the tanks, cannons, railway guns and V-2 Rockets do not exist anymore past these photos. Includes materials used during V-2 tests at Cuxhaven during Operation Backfire.

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COMING DECEMBER 2022 - Limited Edition

Peenemünde Special Vehicles Part 1 — design, production and deployment of Division z.V. — 384 pages, 30x24, 5 landscape format, B/W,  bilingual  English/German, 250+ photos, 60+ tables and drawings in scale 1/35. Retail price 59.99 GBP and 59,95 EUR for Germany - for US not yet fixed.

Volker Ruff
SPEZIALFAHRZEUGE 1
Peenemünde 1942 -1945


Specials vehicles necessary to launch the A4 rocket in the field. For each task; loading, carrying, testing, supply, launch and guiding of the rocket, special vehicles were designed or converted, thus like fire control vehicles, vehicles for supply, testing, fuel , trailers like the “Meillerwagen” and "Vidalwagen”, trailers for liquids, gantry cranes and rail cars including the launching railroad wagon.

All vehicle types are shown, photographs, detailed drawings, designs and technical specification based on historical documentation, production rate and deployment of the Division z.V. are part of this documentation.

COMING 2024-2025 - Limited Edition

Peenemünde Special Vehicles Part 2 — Railway vehicle, training and deployment, last modifications before deployment, further development, annex. — 30x24, 5 landscape format, B/W,  bilingual  English/German, 20+ B/W Photos, tables and drawings in scale 1/35.


Volker Ruff
SPEZIALFAHRZEUGE 2
Peenemünde 1942 -1945


Final days of development and preparations for deployment of vehicles to field operations. This book will show these final adjustments and field training. The debate for methods of deployment even included a proposed railway launching platform. In the end, this complex system was not adopted for use, but a lot of manpower and resources were expended researching the railway deployment system.

All vehicle types are shown, photographs, detailed drawings, designs and technical specification based on historical documentation, production rate and deployment of the Division z.V. are part of this documentation.


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Peenemünde Special Vehicles – Meillerwagen, vehicle number 102 and the launch table, variants design, production and deployment.

Volker Ruff
DER MEILLERWAGEN
FR-Anhänger (S) (3 axle) 1942-1945


This supplementary volume dedicated to the “Meillerwagen” and “Starttisch” is full of technical data, historical reports, patents and information’s of its design company Meiller.

128 pages, hardcover in landscape format, text both in English and German, more than 100 rare and unpublished large format photographs of this special vehicle, and detailed photos of the surviving Meillerwagen’s and launch tables both in museums and depots around the world.

Additionally there are rare original Meiller documents and a set of detailed 1/35 scale drawings that will give historical (technical) researchers and scale modellers a great new source with valuable information.
COMING 2024-2025 - Limited Edition

Peenemünde Special Vehicles – Vidalwagen, vehicle number 601 variants design, production and deployment.

Volker Ruff
DER VIDALWAGEN
Transportanhänger 1942-1945


A supplementary volume dedicated to the “Vidalwagen” the trailer that carried the V2 rocket from its railroad delivery station to the launching crews. Full of technical data, historical reports, patents and information’s of the design company Vidal & Sohn.
 
128 pages, hardcover in landscape format, text both in English and German, more than 100 rare unpublished large format photographs and detailed photos of the only known surviving Vidalwagen. Vidal & Sohn documents and a set of detailed 1/35 scale drawings that will give historical (technical) researchers and scale modellers a great new source with valuable information.

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