So, in Gravity's Rainbow, the action happens between the launch and fall of a V-2

[Monte Davis]

Dave Monroe quotes:

>"Our main objective for a long time was to 
> make it more dangerous to be in the target area than to be 
> with the launch crew"

A nasty mutation of the point Neufeld made years ago in _The Rocket and the
Reich_: that more people were killed in manufacturing the V-2s than by them.