SPEZIALFAHRZEUGE: PEENEMUNDE 1942-45

Do you know the complexity of the special vehicles necessary to launch the A4 rocket in the field? This book will answer these questions. For each task; loading, carrying, testing, supply, launch and guidance of the rocket, special vehicles were designed or converted. This book covers the various vehicles for fire control, supply, testing, fuel, trailers such as the 'Meillerwagen' and 'Vidalwagen', trailers for liquids, gantry cranes and rail cars including the launching railroad wagon. All vehicle types are shown; photographs, detailed drawings, designs and technical specifications based on historical documentation, production rate and deployment of the Division z.V. are part of this documentation. 256 pages, hardcover in landscape format, text in English and German with over 250 rare and unpublished photographs of these special vehicles and devices. Additionally there are rare copies of original documents and a set of detailed 1/35 scale drawings that will give historical (technical) researchers and scale modellers a great new source of valuable information.