Hitler's Rockets: The Story of the V-2s (49 page)

A-1 rockets

A-2 rockets

A-3 rockets

A-4 rockets,
passim

A-5 rockets

accuracy

AEG

aerial photography, of rocket sites

aiming point

Air Intelligence Branch

air-breaks

airbursts

animals

Ardennes offensive

Attlee, Clement

Babington Smith, Constance

Baldwin, Hanson

Balfour, Harold

Barnes, Alfred

Becker, General Karl

Bevin, Ernest

‘Big Ben’, codename

Black Plan

blackout

‘Bodyline’ Scientific Committee

Bomber Command

bombing raids

on bunkers

on launching sites

on Peenemünde

Bor, General

Bracken, Brendan

Brauchitsch, Colonel-General von

Braun, Magnus von

Braun, Werner von

arrested

attitude to V-2s,

background

builds wind-tunnel

Dornberger first meets

first experiments

modifications to V-2,

and production

and raid on Peenemünde

selects Peenemünde

surrenders

test flights

visit to Hitler

Breedon, Florence

British ArmyMobile Air Reporting Unit

British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)

Brooke, Sir Alan (later Lord Alanbrooke)

Brown, W. J.

Buhle, General

building workers

bunkers
see
launching bunkers

buses

disruption

garages

Athol Gate

Epping

Forest Gate

Plumstead

Swanley

West Ham

Woolwich

Cabinet Defence Committee,
see
War Cabinet Defence Committee

casualties

blinded

Deptford

expected rate of

first week of attack

from flying-bombs

identification of bodies

London

Norfolk

rescue

serious injury

shell-shocked

slightly injured

treatment

unaccounted-for people

‘Cement’

censorship.

Central Interpretation Centre, Medmenham

Central Works

Cherwell, Lord (Professor

Frederick Lindemann)

after the war

and arrival of first rockets

and Churchill

and confirmation of the rocket

and Duncan Sandys’ appointment

on expected casualty numbers

and the flying-bomb

on possible casualties

post-war doubts of value of rockets

and rocket’s weight

R. V. Jones and

scepticism about existence of V-2

sees rockets as uneconomic

on Watten

churches

East Ham

Essex

Norfolk

West Norwood

Churchill, Sir Winston

announces cessation of attacks

and bombing of launch sites

and Lord Cherwell

and proof of the rocket

public references to the rocket

raid on Peenemünde

and the rocket threat

support for

cinemas

Civil Defence

Civil Defence Committee

Congreve’s Rockets

Cook, Dr

Cox, Gwladys

cranes, rescue work

craters

Cripps, Sir Stafford

‘Crossbar’

‘Crossbow’ Committee

Crow, Dr, A. D. (later Sir Alwyn)

Crüwell, General

damage industrial

defence, against V-2s,
see also
warning systems

Degenkolb, Gerhard

dimensions

‘Diver’, codename

docks, damage to

dogs, rescue work

Dönitz, Grand Admiral

Dornberger, Walter

A-4 moves into production

attitude to V-2s,

audience with Hitler

background

and Degenkolb

development of V-2s

final test flight

first tests

and Kammler

launch sites

launch tests

meets von Braun

modifications

as a perfectionist

raid on Pennemünde

and rocket failures

selects Peenemünde

sets up team

surrender

test flights

and von Braun’s arrest

Dorsch, Xavier

earthquake effect

Eastern Works

Eden, Sir Anthony

Eisenhower, General

Ellis, Professor Sir Charles

engines see
also
fuel system

evacuation

Evans, Admiral Sir Edward

exchange rates

factories, damage to

Fauner, Professor

Felkin, Squadron Leader S. D.

Fighter Command

fire-fighting

firing procedures

flying-bombs (V-1s)

Förschern, Major

Fowler, Sir Ralph

Frank, Sir Charles

Fritsch, General Wenher von

Fromm, Colonel-General Friedrich

Fuel Panel

fuel supplies

fuel systems

funding of research

Gammans, Captain

‘gas main explosion’ explanation

Gaulle, General Charles de

Gerhold, Major

German Army

444 (Training and Experimental) Battery

485 (Mobile) Artillery Detachment

Air Signal Experimental Regiment

65 Army Corps

Flakregiment 155 (W)

Weapons Department

German News Agency

German Telegraph Service

Gestapo

Goebbels, Dr Josef

Gollin, Geoffrey

Gommorah, Operation

Goring, Hermann

Gowers, Sir Ernest

Great Western Railway

Grenoff, Mary

guidance systems

gyroscopes

Hamburg

Harris, Sir Arthur ‘Bomber’

Harris, Miss

Harrison, Mrs

Hartley, Major

Hawkey, Sir James

Heinemann, Lieutenant-General Erich

Herbert, Peter

Heydrich, Reinhardt

Hill, Air Marshal Sir Roderic

Himmler, Heinrich

Hitler, Adolf

assassination attempt

bombardment starting date

death

and development of new weapons

Dornberger has audience with

increases flying-bomb production

launching sites

lukewarm about rocket

orders concentration on London

pleased with opening of rocket offensive

and production of V-2s,

start of bombardment

and stray rocket to Sweden

visits Kummersdorf

hoaxes, possible

Hodgson, Vere

Hohmann, Colonel

Hollis, Sir Leslie

Houses, damage to

Houston, Renee

Hutchinson, Major Geoffrey

Hydra, Operation

ice stories

incident inquiry points (IIPs)

incident officers

industrial damage

intelligence reports

Irving, David

Ismay, Major General Sir Hastings (‘Pug’)

Jacob, Ian

Jeschonnek, General Hans

Jodl, General Alfred

Joint ‘Crossbow’ Priorities Committee

Joint Intelligence Committee

Joint Intelligence Sub-Committee

Jones, Dr R. V.

accuracy of V-2s,

after the war

background

and the fuel system

and future of rockets

and Lord Cherwell (Lindemann)

opens investigation

outlines probable rocket

and Peenemünde photographs

and the possibility of a hoax

raid on Peenemünde

and Sandys’s appointment

sees wooden replica

spots rocket on photograph

and the warhead

Jordan, Mr and Mrs

Kammler, General Hans

Keitel, General Wilhelm

Kendall, Wing Commander

Kenny, Flight-Lieutenant

Kesselring, General

Kettler, Dr

Knight, Dr

Krupps

Kummersdorf West Experimental Station

launching bunkers

launching procedures

launching sites

launching techniques

Lee, Warden

Leeb, General

Lees-Milne, James

libraries, damage to

Lindemann, Professor Frederick see Cherwell, Lord

liquid fuel see fuel supplies

London and North-Eastern Railway (LNER)

London, Midland and Scottish Railway (LMS)

London Repairs Executive

London Underground

Long-Range Bombardment Commission

Lubbock, Isaac

Luftwaffe

MacAlpine, Sir Malcolm

manufacture see production

Market Garden, Operation

Mary, Queen

Meillerwagen

Metz, Major-General Richard

Milch, Field Marshal

misfires

mobile units

mobility

Montgomery, Field Marshal

morale

Morrison, Herbert

and arrival of first rocket

and existence of the rockets

falsely predicts danger over

and the policy of silence

and possible effect of V-2s

precautions against attack

urges action against the V-2s

motors see engines