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Blizna V-2 Missile Launch Site
The Blizna V-2 missile launch site was the site of a World War II German V-2 missile firing range.The modern museum is built on the exact site of the former V-2 launch site. PhaseII building of the museum was completed in 2011. Today there is a small museum located in the ''Park Historyczny Blizna'' (Historical Park) in Blizna, Poland. After the RAF strategic bombing of the V-2 rocket launch site in Peenemünde, Germany, in August 1943, some of the test and launch facilities were relocated to Blizna in November 1943. Middlebrook 1982, p.222. The first of 139 V-2 launches was carried out from the Blizna launch site on 5 November 1943. History After the air raid on Peenemünde on 17 August 1943, German strategic command decided to divide the work on the V-2 rocket among three independently operating centres. Assembly plants were transferred to underground factories that had been built in a massive hollow cave complex in the Harz mountains in Germany. Wnuk 2012, p.26–29 (Bog ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blizna, Subcarpathian Voivodeship
Blizna is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Ostrów, within Ropczyce-Sędziszów County, Subcarpathian Voivodeship, in south-eastern Poland. It lies approximately north of Ostrów, Ropczyce-Sędziszów County, Ostrów, north of Ropczyce, and north-west of the regional capital Rzeszów. It has a population of about 250. History World War II From 5 November 1943 to early July 1944 there was an Schutzstaffel, SS V-2 missile launch site, Blizna, military base near Blizna, from which 139 V-2 rocket, A4 (also known as V-2) rockets were launched for experimental purposes and for training.#Anatoly69, Zak, Anatoly: RussianSpaceWeb.Com: 2009#Jena69, Jena1806.Com: 2009 After the Strategic bombing, air raid on Peenemünde on 17 August 1943 it was decided that the training and testing should be done in southeast Poland outside of the range of the Allies of World War II, Allied bombers. However test launches also continued at Peenemuende until 21 February 1945. Because ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
