JUST RELEASED 2020 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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SOON 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. |
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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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2024-2025 - Limited Edition 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. |
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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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Antwerpen: De Palm, 1945 Dornberger, Walter. “Can Russian Missiles Strike the United States?” Collier’s Magazine (January 1955) Dornberger, Walter. V-2: The Nazi Rocket Weapon. Translated by James Cleugh and Geoffrey Halliday. New York: Viking Press, 1954 highly recommended * Dungan, T. Dwayne. V-2: A Combat History of the First Ballistic Missile. Yardley, PA: Westholme Publishing, 2005 highly recommended * Eisenhower, Dwight D. Crusade in Europe. Garden City, New York: Double Day and Company, Inc., 1952 Emme, Eugene M. Aeronautics and Astronautics: An American Chronology of Science and Technology in the Exploration of Space 1915-1960. Washington DC: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 1961 Engelmann, Whriter Joachim. Geheime waffenschmiede Peenemünde. German language only, V-2 /Wasserfall / Schmetterling, Publisher: Podzun- pallas-Verlag Friedberg, ISBN 3-7909- 0118-8 Franssen, Theo and Captain Wood. The Battle of Antwerp, "city of sudden death..." Antwerp: De Sleutel, 1945 Galván, J. Manuel Ramírez. V2, La Venganza de Hitler. Spanish language only, Rústica, Melusina, 2012. Garlinski, Jozef. Hitler's Last Weapons: The Underground War Against the V1 and V2. ISBN 0904014231 Glass, A., S. Kordaczuk, and D. Stepniewska. Wywiad Armii Krajowej W Walce Z V-1 / V-2 (Polish Home Army Intelligence Service Against the V-1 and V-2). Warszawa: Mirage Hobby, 2000 Grailet, Lambert. Première Mondiale Pour le V-2 sur Paris. Tongeren: George Michiels, 1996 Gruen, Adam L. Preemptive Defense, Allied Air Power Versus Hitler’s V-Weapons 1943–1945. United States Air Force Historical Studies Office, 1991 Gückelhorn, Wolfgang, and Detlev Paul. V1 “Eifelschreck,” Abschüsse, Abstürze und Einschläge der fliegenden Bombs aus der Eifel und dem Rechtsrheinischen 1944/45. Aachen: Helios Verlags- und Buchvertriebsgesellschaft, 2004 highly recommended * Gückelhorn, Wolfgang, and Detlev Paul. V2 gefrorene Blitze (V2 Frozen Lightning): Einsatzgeschichte der V2 aus Eifel, Hunsrück und Westerwald 1944/45. Aachen: Helios Verlags- und Buchvertriebsgesellschaft, 2007 highly recommended * Hahn, Fritz. Deutsche Geheimwaffen. Heidenheim: Erich Hoffman Verlag, 1963 Hautefeuille, Roland. Constructions Spéciales. Detailed description with original drawings about the blockhaus buildings for V-weapons in France. Paris: Selbstverlag, 1985 Hazenberg, F. R., A. N. W. Kenens, and R. van Lith. Wassenaar in de Tweede Wereldoorlog. Wassenaar: Stichting Wassenaar, 1995 Hearn, Major Bunn (Headquarters, U.S. War Department Memorandum). V-Weapon Activity Report. April 7–8, 1945 Hechler, Ken. The Bridge at Remagen: The Amazing Story of March 7, 1945—The Day the Rhine River was Crossed. 1957. Reprint, Missoula, Montana: Pictorial Histories Publishing Company, 1993 Heitmann, Jan. “The Peenemünde Rocket Centre.” After the Battle magazine, no. 74 (1991): pp. 1–25 highly recommended * Helfers, Lieutenant Colonel M.C. The Employment of V-Weapons by the Germans During World War II. Washington D.C.: Department of the Army, Office of the Chief of Military History, 1954 Hindriks, Klaas Jan and Rudolf Spoor. Wernher von Braun; één van de 118. Amsterdam: 1977 Hölsken, Dieter. V-Missiles of the Third Reich: The V-1 and V-2. Sturbridge, Massachusetts: Monogram Aviation Publications, 1994 highly recommended * Howard, Michael. British Intelligence in the Second World War. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1990 Huurman, C. Het spoorwegbedrijf in oorlogstijd, 1939-1945. ‘s-Hertogenbosch: Uquilair, 2001 Huzel, Dieter K. Peenemünde to Canaveral. New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, 1962 highly recommended * Johnson, David. V-1, V-2: Hitler's Vengeance on London. New York: Stein and Day Publishers, 1981 highly recommended * Johnson, David. V for Vengeance: the Second Battle of London. London : Kimber, 1981 Jones, R. V. Most Secret War. London: Hamish Hamilton, 1978 highly recommended * Jungbluth, Uli. Wunderwaffen im KZ Rebstock, Zwangsarbeit in Dernau/Rheinland-Pfalz und Artern/Thüringen im Dienste der V-Waffen. Briedel/Mosel: Rhein-Mosel-Verlag, 2000 Jungbluth, Uli. V1,2,3: Hitler’s Geheimwaffen im Westerwald. Montabaur/Westerburg: Werkstatt-Beiträge zum Westerwald, 1996 highly recommended * Kak, Zdenk. Zazracne Zbrane, in the Czech language, 1994 Kennedy, Gregory P. Germany's V-2 Rocket. Atglen, PA: Schiffer, 2006 highly recommended * Kennedy, Gregory P. Vengeance Weapon 2: The V-2 Guided Missile. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1983 highly recommended * King, Benjamin, and Timothy J. Kutta. Impact: The History of Germany's V-Weapons in World War II. New York: Sarpedon, 1998 highly recommended * Klee, Ernst, and Otto Merk.The Birth of the Missile: The Secrets of Peenemünde. Hamburg: Gerhard Stalling Verlag, 1963 Klee, Ernst, and Otto Merk. Damals in Peenemünde. Oldenburg: Gerhard Stalling Verlag, 1963 highly recommended * Kokhuis, G. J. I. Twente 1940-1945, Part 1. (Dutch language) Koopman, Henk. Vergeltungswaffen in the Nederland (V-weapons in the Netherlands). Utrecht: Uitgeverij Flying Pencil BL B.V., 2018 (Dutch language) highly recommended * Kooy, J. M. J., and Uytenbogaart. Ballistics Of The Future. The Technical Publishing Company 1946 with 472 pages, index, photos, maps mad 11 fold-outs. (Contains errata sheet - Fold outs have drawings of rocket components) Very rare. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1946 Purchase PDF -- highly recommended * Lampton, Christopher. Wernher Von Braun. New York: Franklin Watts, 1988 Lange, Thomas H. Peenemünde. Analyse einer Technologieentwincklung im Dritten Reich. 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Spurensuche #10, Streng Geheim! - Das Geheimnis der deutschen Raketen und raketengetriebenen Fluggeräte (Taschenbuch). Verlag, Podzun-Pallas, 2002 highly recommended * Raiber, R, M.D. “The Führerhauptquartiere.” After the Battle Magazine, no. 19 (1977): pp. 28–33 Ramsey, Winston G., and Robert Collis. The Blitz Then and Now, Vol. 3. London: Battle of Britain Prints International, Ltd., 1990 highly recommended * Ramsey, Winston G. “The V-Weapons.” After the Battle magazine, no. 6 (1974): pp. 2–37 highly recommended * Ranstead, Chris. Disarming Hitler's V Weapons: Bomb Disposal - The V1 & V2 Rockets. Pen and Sword, Barnsley, S. Yorkshire, 2013 Rely, Achiel, and Winston Ramsey. “Antwerp: City of Sudden Death.” After the Battle Magazine, no. 57 (1987): pp. 43–48 Reuter, Claus. The V2 and the Russian and American Rocket Program. New York: S. R. Research and Publishing, 2000 Ross, David M. S., Squadron Leader J. Bruce Blanche, William Simpson. The Greatest Squadron of Them All: The Definitive History of 603 Squadron, Volume Two: 1941 To Date. London: Grub Street, 2003 highly recommended * Ross, Stewart Halsey. Strategic Bombing by the United States in World War II: The Myths and the Facts. Jefferson. NC: McFarland and Company, Inc., 2003 Ruff, Volker. Der Strabokran. 15t and 16t Gantry Crane Variants Used in Tiger, Panther, Elefant & V-2 Rocket Units. Buchdorf, Germany: Volker Ruff, 2011 Purchase highly recommended * Russell, John, with R. De Norman. No Triumphant Procession: The Forgotten Battles of April 1945. London: Arms and Armour, 1994 Scheufelen, Klaus H. Mythos Raketen: Chancen für den Frieden. Munich/Esslingen: Bechtle Verlag, 2004 Sellier, André. Histoire du Camp de Dora. Paris: La Découverte, 1998 Sellier, André, and Ives Le Maner. Images De Dora 1943–1945. Centre d’Histoire de la Guerre et des Fusées, Saint-Omer, 1999 Serrien, Pieter. Overzicht V-inslagen op België (Overview of V-bomb attacks on Belgium). 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Wereld oorlog (The Hague in the Second World War) Van Valkenburgh, Christopher. Fifty
Years of Silence; Ordnance Technical
Intelligence Team Depot O-644, Paris, France,
1944-1945. Independent: Amazon, 2020 Von Braun, Wernher, and Frederick I. Ordway, III. History of Rocketry and Space Travel. London: Thomas Nelson and Sons, Ltd., 1967 Von Braun, Wernher, and Frederick I. Ordway, III. The Rockets’ Red Glare. New York: Doubleday, 1976 Wagner, Jens-Christian. Produktion des Todes - Das KZ Mittelbau Dora. Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag, 2001 Ward, Bob. Dr. Space: The Life of Wernher von Braun. Annapolis, MD: US Naval Institute Press, 2005 The War Office. Report on Operation “Backfire.” 5 Vols. London: January 1946 highly recommended * Weber, Lieutenant Colonel Wolfgang and Dr. Merz, Dr. Priesner, Altenwalder Versuchkommando. Die Fernrakete, Gerät und Zubehör, AVKO (From Fehrbellin to Altenwalde, AVKO): The history of the Div. z.V.- Cuxhaven/Altenwalde: 1945-46. Purchase PDF (German and English) highly recommended * Wegener, Peter P. The Peenemünde Wind Tunnels: A Memoir. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996 Williams, Alan. Operation Crossbow: The Untold Story of Photographic Intelligence and the Search for Hitler's V Weapons. London: Cornerstone Publishing, 2013 Williams, Major C. R. “V-Weapons: Crossbow
Campaign.” U.S. Strategic Bombing Survey, Report No.
60 (1945) Some of these are available at
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