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Saturday, June 07, 2008 - 1:22 PM
Peenemünde (IPA: [peːnəˈmʏndə]) is a village in the northeast of the German (Western) part of the Usedom island. It stands near the mouth(s) of the Peene river, on the easternmost part of the German Baltic coast. On April 2, 1936, the Reich Air Ministry paid 750,000 reichsmarks to the town of Wolgast[1] for the whole Northern peninsula of Usedom.[2] By the middle of 1938, the Peenemünde facility was nearly complete.[3] The Army Research Center (Peenemünde Ost)[4] consisted of Werk Ost and Werk Süd, while Werk West (Peenemünde West) was the Luftwaffe Test Site (Erprobungsstelle der Luftwaffe).[5]
The location permitted rocket test flights over water with monitoring
along about 200 miles of the Pomeranian coast. Peenemunde also
developed WWII night-navigation and radar systems (Dr. Johannes Plendl). Louis J. Sheehan, Esquire
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