The developers and designers of the Nazi missile weapons the Wernher von Braun surrender to the 44th American Division. Also, the Americans were given and documentation for the development.
In the summer of 1945, during Operation Paperclip, they were all taken to America and continued their work there, but already on the US government. So the US acquired its own missile and space programs.
From left to right:
Engineer-administrator, one of the founders of heavy rocket engineering Lieutenant-General Walter Dornberger (with a cigar);
Herbert Axter;
the chief designer of the V-2 rocket, Obersturmbannfuehrer SS Wernher von Braun (with plaster), the future “father” of the US space program;
Hans Lindenberg;
Bernhard Tessmann (trimmed with frame border).
Location: Germany
Date: 03 May 1945