For some reason, I am amazed by these photos and the newspaper article. A few years later and this would have been Top Secret stuff. But in the fall of 1945, they helped sell Victory Bonds.
jasg, rather than cutting and pasting huge swaths of text, either paraphrase in your own words or provide a link to where the material is posted elsewhere online.
After checking with the Mods, I can only post the above link. (Your local library may have access to the scanned page).
At the bottom you will find the unformatted, raw OCR’d text of the newspaper page. The main portion of the article can be picked out. To avoid any copyright issues, you will have to do it yourself. The main block of text starts with the string “German V-2 Rocket Bomb”.
The article also included the names of the service personnel who accompanied the display. They were:
Lt. (jg) Clyde “Sandy” Sanders
Charles D. Cowan Pfc. USMC
Eugene Williamson AOM 1/c USNR
Charles Edward Schafer S 1/c USNR
Plater T. Gedney AMM 3/c (CA) USNR
Charles Watkins AMM 2/c USN
jasg,
Hi, I’m an aviation historian specialising Japanese aircraft. I am currently compiling my latest book on the Ohka Special Attack aircraft, or “Baka-bomb” to use the American name.
I would very much like to use your Baka photo (taken in Port Allegany, PA.) in the book, as I include a section tracing the movements of the 11 Ohka airframes that were taken back to the USA for evaluation.
Would it be possible to get a high scan of the image?
Regards,
Joe
The V1 and V2 were hardly a secret: thousands of people had seen V1s during their use in 1944, and the initial story about the V2 explosions (that they were gas mains blowing up) didn’t last for more than a few weeks. Besides, the Germans had been boasting about their “wonder weapons”.
In case you hadn’t noticed, the post you responded to was written eight years ago. But the good news is jasg still posts on this board. If he doesn’t notice that you’ve re-opened the thread, you can contact him directly by clicking on his name in the post and sending him a message.
