Exploring London: WW2 German V-2 rocket (Imperial War Museum)
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- Опубликовано: 22 окт 2024
- Imperial War Museum (IWM), London - a real WW2 German V-2 Rocket at the Imperial War Museum (IWM) in London. Let's go to London's fascinating Imperial War Museum (IWM) and let's look at one of the last surviving second world war V2 rockets built by the Germans during World War Two for the sole purpose of hitting and destroying London. The V-2 (German: Vergeltungswaffe 2, "Retribution Weapon 2"), with the technical name Aggregat 4 (A4), was the world's first long-range guided ballistic missile. The V-2 missile, powered by a liquid-propellant rocket engine, was developed during the Second World War in Germany as a "vengeance weapon" and assigned to attack Allied cities as retaliation for the Allied bombings against German cities. The V-2 rocket also became the first artificial object to travel into space by crossing the Kármán line with the vertical launch of MW 18014 on 20 June 1944.
Imperial War Museums (IWM) is a British national museum organisation with branches at five locations in England, three of which are in London. Founded as the Imperial War Museum in 1917, the museum was intended to record the civil and military war effort and sacrifice of Britain and its Empire during the First World War. The museum's remit has since expanded to include all conflicts in which British or Commonwealth forces have been involved since 1914. As of 2012, the museum aims "to provide for, and to encourage, the study and understanding of the history of modern war and 'wartime experience'."
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another great video
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Fascinating, Vic! Would you consider making a video of the Cabinet War Rooms in London?
+Mr. Archonta Great idea, thank you. I will go to the Cabinet War Rooms within the next couple of weeks...
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+Steven Smach Thank you!!
ttanks for the shared vid .The ultimate targets were US cities such as Washington and NY. Luckily, these were developed close to the end of the war - but of course, the designer continued on, to work with NASA and the Apollo missions. Personally, I don't like that - but as with any war, technology benefits and takes great leaps forward.
nice video - glad you enjoyed London.
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Hard to believe that technology was developed in the 1940's. You have got to give the Germans credit for their engineering prowess. The Brits did a nice job of sectioning that rocket so that we can see the inner workings. I would love to visit the Imperial War Museum one day. How many days would it take to see all of their exhibits?
+Urbicide It will take about 4 hours to see everything and the exhibits change all the time, it is a very nice building (which by the way, was hit many times by V2 rockets)...
Vic Stefanu - World Travels and Adventures Well then, I guess that they could have probably just used one of the holes in the roof to lower the missile into the museum. :-P I wonder what kind of display they could have set up if they had positioned the V-2 nose down, as if it were just getting ready to strike the ground? There was a WWII documentary on TV tonight that included a few minutes about the V-2 rocket attacks. As bad as the attacks were in London, England, Antwerp, Belgium suffered 3 times as many rocket attacks during the war.
+Urbicide True, Brussels and Antwerp suffered even more than London from the V2 attacks. I saw an article a few days ago describing how expensive it was to manufacture one of these things and the amazing thing is that the Germans produced over 5,000 of them just before the war!!
There is also a V2 at the Science Museum in London. Was there February 2020
And one (I just discovered) in the RAF museum
amazing :D I haven't been to there before but seen both in a different museum. Wasn't the v2 first man made object in space?
+Cheesy Nachos yea :p I wasn't sure 100% true or not but still it's very cool invention! but just used for the wrong things...
+William Robertson This rocket would reach heights up to 90kms (over 55 miles) so practically yes, it was the first man-made object to go up in space... good point...
+Vic Stefanu - World Travels and Adventures I love your vids man! :P you going anywhere else in the UK?
+William Robertson Waiting for the weather to warm up a little, I will travel back to Scotland soon... I have a trip to Morocco coming up, now that will be interesting...
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Very interesting video of the V1 & V2 rockets built by the Germans during WW II that was
directed upon the city of London, England during the year 1944 which killed over 2,000 people living in London. Looking at the rocket specimen on display at the Imperial War Museum in London, I am assuming that this particular rocket itself was never used in an actual bombing because the rocket appears to be in mint condition.
It actually looks like this particular rocket was repainted, and even possibly rebuilt.
At what location did the British capture this particular rocket from the Germans,, and in
what year did the British capture this rocket .
Do you know why Werner von Braun decided to help the British after he was captured as a prisoner. He at that point was actually turning against his own people, to help the British.
In the video I believe it was mentioned that the rockets were built in Germany under deplorable conditions, and that more people in Germany died building these rockets
than the rocket killed when it was deployed to hit the City of London.
Do you know a more accurate count of Germans that died in Germany building these rockets, and what were the cause(s) of their death. Did these rockets explode while they were being assembled, or was it the Rocket fuel that killed the Germans.
Also, would you know from what location(s) was the V2 rockets deployed to attack
the City of London?
+Michael Friedman Hi Michael, this rocket was never used and was captured by the British around April-May of 1945, I am not certain in which location of Germany it was found. It may have been repainted however.. Von Braun did not help the British, he helped the Americans in developing the missiles for the Army and this is because the technology would be used against the Russians (Soviets)... They were mainly launched from Northern France from mobile trucks which made their discovery difficult... They were built in the Mittelbau-Dora concentration camp and over 40,000 people died due to slave labor conditions...
All Werner Von Braun wanted to do was build rockets and eventually put a man on the Moon. He did not help the British, him and a bunch of his fellow scientists turned themselves over to the Americans as the war was winding down, one because he felt his best chances were with the Americans because he was afraid the British would put him on trail as a war criminal and two because the Russians were the last people he wanted to have anything to do with. It is a very interesting story that is told in detail in the book "Breaking the Chains of Gravity."
Thank you for that, I will see if I can get that book..
This is aproximatly 1 1/2 dozen real A4/V2 rockets on display in various countries including the U.S. and a few more replicas and or partial replicas. The official designation for the rocket was A4 but the NAZIS named it the V2 for Vengeance weapon 2, the V1 being vengeance weapon 1. A bunch of the A4/V2 rockets were captured and taken to the U.S., Russia and Britain to examine and test fire with the best examples going to the U.S. The Redstone rocket is based off of the A4/V2 internally.
Thank you for sharing with us all this interesting information!!
The Germans deserve credit for their early contribution to the great space adventure if for the wrong reasons.
Thanks for this vid. I will try to visit this museum when I next come to London.
I understand that the British intelligence were able to feed false information to the Germans about where the rockets had landed to foil the accuracy of their future landings.
+meandmymouth I am not sure if that worked since over 570 V2 rockets found their targets (London, that is)...
+Vic Stefanu - World Travels and Adventures there was an instance where they did fool the Germans with there cannons shooting 20 miles short for the whole war XD I forgot what it was called
My mother survived a direct hit in Hammersmith in 1944
Wow.. I hope that she survived!
@@VicStefanu she lived to the ripe old age of 98 - three others died in that strike. I cannot seem to find the record; we have al letter from the Mimistry of Defence commending her on her actions so next time I intend to get a copy
@@palhein-reim7430 Ok, thank you! 👍👍👍