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Peenemünde
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Pee·ne·mün·de  (pn-mnd, -mün-)
A village of northeast Germany on an offshore island in the Baltic Sea. It was a center for the development of guided missiles, especially the V-1 and V-2, prior to and during World War II (1937-1945).
Peenemünde [ˌpiːnəˈmʊndə]
n
(Placename) a village in N Germany, in Mecklenburg-West Pomerania on the Baltic coast: site of a German rocket-development centre in World War II
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SCARRED Craters surround a site at Peenemunde in Germany in 1944 following an Allied bombing raid.
Revealed: A history of the war, as seen from the skies by The Journal (Newcastle, England)
Other shots in the Aerial Reconnaissance Archives of 10million photos include one showing giant craters left from bombing raids on a German weapons testing site in Peenemunde and cityscapes of Berlin, Paris, Caen and Rome.
HIGH SPY; Archive of secret wartime aerial photos goes online by The Mirror (London, England)
But her eyes still sparkle with the mischievous intelligence that led her, as a girl of 23, to infiltrate a group of German officers and charm them into revealing the secret of the V-1 and V-2 rocket bombs being built at Peenemunde.
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