[DogByte6RER]

Funny ... it seems as though we didn't have such a big problem with illegal immigration from Mexico back then.

[DogByte6RER]

More for reference:

V-2 Rocket, Off Course, Falls Near Juarez

May 30, 1947

http://elpasotimes.typepad.com/morgue/2009/01/v2-rocket-off-course-falls-near-juarez.html

[Tallguy]

Wernher von Braun Lyrics
Performed by Tom Lehrer

Gather round while I sing you of Wernher von Braun,
A man whose allegiance
Is ruled by expedience.
Call him a Nazi, he won’t even frown.
“Ha, Nazi Schmazi,” says Wernher von Braun.

Don’t say that he’s hypocritical,
Say rather that he’s apolitical.

“Once the rockets are up, who cares where they come down?
That’s not my department,” says Wernher von Braun.

Some have harsh words for this man of renown,
But some think our attitude
Should be one of gratitude,
Like the widows and cripples in old London town
Who owe their large pensions to Wernher von Braun.

You too may be a big hero,
Once you’ve learned to count backwards to zero.
“In German oder English I know how to count down,
Und I’m learning Chinese,” says Wernher von Braun.

[STD]

Ooh, I long for those heady days! I wish they could come again. We don't even need nukes with the MLRS systems the regular US Army Divisional artillery. I'll bet we don't suffer from a lack of resources, just a lack of fortitude.

[TigersEye]

...a runaway German V-2 rocket fired from the White Sands Proving Ground in New Mexico crashed and exploded on top of a rocky knoll three and a half miles south of the Juarez business district.

With thousands of square miles of empty desert in northern Mexico it just had to land 3 1/2 miles from Juarez. Murphy's Law!

[Gandalf_The_Gray]

When we used up all the V2s we went on to start production of a slightly modified version. Our copy used a straight cylindrical body capped off with a conical nose cone. The innards were pure “von Braun” and eventually became the US Army’s “Redstone” IRBM. So it could be said that we used Nazi missiles until 1964!

Regards,
GtG

[mylife]

We crash tons of drones in Mexico to this day.

[TrueKnightGalahad]

Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?

[Oztrich Boy]

They made so many, they still had a ton of them left over after the end of World War II. ~~~~~~ It was a giant behemoth, standing forty-six feet high and weighing fifty-six thousand pounds

So at the end of the war, the Germans had about 1-twentyfifth of a single V-2 in inventory. Doesn't seem much.

[JLS]

Interesting bit of history, but boy the contrast of the agenda driven modern story is stark compared to the 1947 story from the El Paso paper. It is clear how normal bias is in modern writing.

[rector seal]

Lost to history are my father’s old black and white photos of V2 rockets in the Southwest US from 1945-46. Standing next to each other in a launch area were three V2 rockets. The 1st had a german swastika on it. The 2nd had a partial paint job 1/2 German & 1/2 US army and the third was painted 100% american.
He wasn’t a scientist, just a colorblind civilian electrician lucky enough to work on newly developed airplane radars during WW2, V2 rockets after WW2, and Nuke sub wiring during the Korean War.