Paul Irving

<strong>Quelle:</strong> <bdi><a href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q33206336" class="extiw" title="d:Q33206336"><span title="photographer">Benjamin Couprie</span></a> </bdi> - <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.dfi.dk/dfi/pressroom/kbhfortolkningen/">Københavnerfortolkningen</a>

<strong>Quelle:</strong> <p>No. 540 Squadron RAF <b>Flight Sergeant E. P. H. Peek</b> in a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/de_Havilland_Mosquito" class="extiw" title="en:de Havilland Mosquito">de Havilland Mosquito</a> PR4<sup id="cite_ref-Collier_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Collier-7">[7]</a></sup> returned to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAF_Leuchars" class="extiw" title="en:RAF Leuchars">Leuchars</a> airfield on June 23, 1943 with Peenemünde photos showing a pair of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meillerwagen" class="extiw" title="en:Meillerwagen">low-loader vehicles</a><sup id="cite_ref-Cooksley_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Cooksley-8">[8]</a></sup> holding a pair of rockets.<sup id="cite_ref-Irving_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Irving-2">[2]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Collier_7-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Collier-7">[7]</a></sup></p> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Chronology">Chronology</span></h2> The first RAF photo on April 22, 1943 of a 1 1/2 mm "object" -- <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_V-2_test_launches" class="extiw" title="en:List of V-2 test launches">A-4 model 21</a> within Test Stand VII -- was not initially identified as a rocket.<sup id="cite_ref-Irving_2-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Irving-2">[2]</a></sup> After reviewing Peek's June 23 photo, <b>Flight Lieutenant Andre' J. A. Kenny</b> changed the designation of the 1 1/2 -mm-long-specks from 'objects' to 'torpedoes'.<sup id="cite_ref-Irving_2-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Irving-2">[2]</a></sup> Then more than a year after the initial rocket photos (even after <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_Peenem%C3%BCnde_in_World_War_II#Cabinet_Defence_Committee_(Operations)" class="extiw" title="en:Bombing of Peenemünde in World War II">Operation Hydra</a> had bombed Peenemünde on August 17/18, 1943 based on other intelligence), a May 5, 1944 photo of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blizna" class="extiw" title="en:Blizna">Blizna</a> by the Photographic Reconnaissance Unit (PRU) at a new base at San Severo Italy showed a rocket on a narrow-gauge railway line,<sup id="cite_ref-Irving_2-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Irving-2">[2]</a></sup> but the Crossbow committee put the photographs aside.<sup id="cite_ref-Garlinski_6-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Garlinski-6">[6]</a></sup> Finally, after the report of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Most_III" class="extiw" title="en:Operation Most III">Bug river wreckage</a>, <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reginald_Victor_Jones" class="extiw" title="en:Reginald Victor Jones">Reginald Victor Jones</a></b> methodically examined the photographs of Blizna through the night of June 2/3, 1944 and found a faint white line image of the rocket on a loop of the narrow-gauge railway.<sup id="cite_ref-Garlinski_6-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Garlinski-6">[6]</a></sup> Kenny subsequently called back earlier Peenemünde photographs and identified several finned 'objects': on railway trucks, outside tall upright buildings, and on the traverser carriage serving the ellipse; as well as evidence of a heavy and violent explosion with blast damages to buildings at the 'launching pad'.<sup id="cite_ref-Irving_2-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Irving-2">[2]</a></sup> - This image or video was catalogued by one of the centers of the United States <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA" class="extiw" title="w:NASA">National Aeronautics and Space Administration</a> (NASA) under <b>Photo ID:</b> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://images.nasa.gov/search?q=%5Bhttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.nasa.gov%2Fcenters%2Fkennedy%2Fimages%2Fcontent%2F165515main_peenemunde.jpg%20165515%5D&amp;page=1&amp;media=image,video,audio&amp;yearStart=1920&amp;yearEnd=2023">[http://www.nasa.gov/centers/kennedy/images/content/165515main_peenemunde.jpg 165515</a>].

<strong>Quelle:</strong> <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Ceeseven" title="User:Ceeseven">Ceeseven</a> - <span class="int-own-work" lang="en">Own work</span>

<strong>Quelle:</strong> Kathleen Ballard, Los Angeles Times - <a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="https://digital.library.ucla.edu/catalog/ark:/21198/zz0002qcg4">https://digital.library.ucla.edu/catalog/ark:/21198/zz0002qcg4</a>

<strong>Quelle:</strong> <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Toang_Chuing_Lam_Bapowch" title="User:Toang Chuing Lam Bapowch">Toang Chuing Lam Bapowch</a> - <span class="int-own-work" lang="en">Own work</span>