V2 Tests at Peenemunde

(31 Dec 1936) STORY 5
342 USAF 17339 REEL 36
V2 Tests at Peenemunde (B/W mute)
01:53:54 Scenes of A-5 / V2 missile on launch pad - engine ignition, lift off and climb
01:54:10 Men pushing crate towards erector
01:54:30 Scenes of V2 being winched into upright position and technicians preparing missile for test
01:55:46 Wehrner Von Braun and others leaving pad area
01:55:59 Tracking camera footage of A-5 launch and climb
01:56:16 Von Braun wading into water to attach recovery cables to A-5
01: 57:07 Scenes from tracking cameras of A-5 launches cut in with technicians preparing missiles for flight
01:59:34 A-5 missile being pulled onto a small boat after test
01:59:54 Von Braun in shorts, and other men, wading into water to bring the A-5 to shore after flight
02:00:20 ends
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[@Cashpots]

Just about everything is wrong with this title! Apart from the first few seconds this shows tests of the A5 rocket. It is NOT at Peenemunde but an island called Grafswalder Oie which is off the same coast. The first test rockets did not have consecutive numbers and the A5 came 2 years before the A4 (V2). The give away - apart from knowing what I am talking about - is the light house which still stands on the island. Werner Von Braun was very much involved in these tests of course. The island still has all the concrete roads and cable ducts that were used to connect one end with the other installed in 1936 onwards. The winds on the island also made the designers of Peenemunde insist on the elliptical earthwork round Prufstand VII as it was often impossible to launch when the wind was blowing the slow starting speed test rockets. See the book The Birth of the Missile by Hand Klee and Otto Merk. Also another video on here correctly titled the The A-5 prototype of the V2.

[@navigator_071]

Finally some new video ( at least rare) about V2, on TH-cam. Very interesting !

[@cogoid]

Interesting footage. The correct title should be: _Operation Lighthouse_ -- launches of small scale test rockets A3 and A5 from _Greifswalder Oie_ in 1937 and 1938. This work had _eventually_ led to the development of the much larger A4 rocket, also known as V2.

[@schabanow]

Your stole my comment. +1

[@charlesvandenberghe4564]

Yes, You are absolutely right.

[@orogenesisalps5305]

Glorious

[@sonnyburnett8725]

I believe this is the early version of the V-2 called the A-4. A smaller scale for testing. They seemed to be able to even get the parachute to open slowly so as not to rip apart at high speed. Pretty amazing.

[@charlesvandenberghe4564]

Sonny Burnett the V2 is the A4!!

[@michaelhecht9687]

Definitiv A5 Raketen auf der Greifswalder Oie. Aber trotzdem schön zu sehen.

[@david9783]

That water is COLD!

[@mautresim]

Is that an embarrassed Von Braun quietly leaving the scene, just as he notices a cameraman framing him, at the time of 1:52?

[@Onoma314]

My Grandpa bombed this site, 4 August 1944, B-17G Aircraft # 43-37703 ( The Tremblin' Gremlin II ), 384th Heavy Bombardment Group

[@bernhardhorlezeder8394]

Er soll für immer in der Hölle schmoren....

[@Onoma314]

@@bernhardhorlezeder8394 Well, that would be impossible, hell isn't a place. Perhaps you should spend some time learning Greek instead of talking out of your ass

[@OmmerSyssel]

Honour to your heroic Grandfather ✌🏻🙏🏻

[@georgekoroneos3892]

The point is that the Germans were good engineers & in this military program they gain certain experiences & in due time found practical capable solutions to the problems with others words they originated the v1 v2 business .

[@jorgearroyo1342]

Falto muy poco para que ganaramos la guerra.

[@tracysrocket]

This film is inverted

[@dulls8475]

yes . I went on google earth to have a look and you can only make it fit if you work to the inverted film.

[@michaeljohnson2566]

Early versions of Revenge Weapon 2. V1 was the doodlebug. V2 was the rocket. V3 was the low pressure long range cannon, which never worked. It kept blowing apart. Isn't it odd that they built flying bombs and rocket bombs, yet, for the most part, they never had sound on their films?

[@irgski]

Old Wehrner hisself!!!

[@bernhardhorlezeder8394]

Wernher von Braun, die Bombardierung von Pennemünde durch feindliche Flugzeugverbände war ein großer Rückschlag für die Menschheit !

[@OmmerSyssel]

​@@bernhardhorlezeder8394ja klar 🤣😴

[@charlesvandenberghe4564]

This is the A-5 from the Ilse of Oie in the baltic see.

[@takenocare]

Elon Musk must appreciate...

[@andrestuth6839]

Made in Germany