Correction, and question.

[Joseph Tracy]

 I realize that I actually don’t know where Weissman/Blicero is located during the main part of the novel, where Katje B escaped from. Is that clearly indicated somewhere?  I put Peenemunde in a recent post but that is wrong, that was the development site, Nordhausen the manufacturing site and most launces were from the Netherlands. I imagine my faulty reference to Peenemunde produced more groans than misleading information, but I am still struggling with some of the bones of the novel and the War’s history . 

So here is something from Wikipedia:

Positions of the German launch units changed a number of times. For example, Artillerie Init 444 arrived in the southwest Netherlands (in Zeeland) in September 1944. From a field near the village of Serooskerke, five V-2s were launched on 15 and 16 September, with one more successful and one failed launch on the 18th. That same date, a transport carrying a missile took a wrong turn and ended up in Serooskerke itself, giving a villager the opportunity to surreptitiously take some photographs of the weapon; these were smuggled to London by the Dutch Resistance.[39] After that the unit moved to the woods near Rijs, Gaasterland in the northwest Netherlands, to ensure that the technology did not fall into Allied hands. From Gaasterland V-2s were launched against Ipswich and Norwich from 25 September (London being out of range). Because of their inaccuracy, these V-2s did not hit their target cities. Shortly after that only London and Antwerp remained as designated targets as ordered by Adolf Hitler himself, Antwerp being targeted in the period of 12 to 20 October, after which time the unit moved to The Hague.


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