A display of rockets from NASA where captured German rocket scientists who launched their V1 and V2 rockets, helped to contribute to the American rock


A display of rockets from NASA where captured German rocket scientists who launched their V1 and V2 rockets, helped to contribute to the American rocket programme, on display at La Coupole underground concrete bunker built into a hillside where the Nazis launched their V1 and V2 rockets aimed at London during the later part of WW11. The bunker is now a visitor’s History and Memory Centre, a world war II museum, situated at Saint-Omer in northern France. The complex was built by using slave labour.


Size: 2000px × 3008px
Location: La Coupole, Saint Omar, France
Photo credit: © richard sowersby / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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