Correction, and question.

[Monte Davis]

Most or all of your answers are here -- scroll down and click to enlarge
detail map.

On p. 104 (Viking) "Bombs fall to the west in the Haagsche Bosch" ["Hague
Woods"], i.e. locations 16 <-> 25 on the map

http://www.v2rocket.com/start/deployment/denhaag.html#locations

On Mon, Jun 20, 2016 at 10:46 AM, Joseph Tracy <brook7 at sover.net> wrote:

>  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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