Operation Paperclip at Fort Bliss: 1945-1950 (Pamphlet)

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Author: Enscore, Susan I.

Publisher: Conservation Division, Directorate of Environment, U.S. Army Air Defense Artillery Center (Fort Bliss, TX)

Pub Date: 1998

Binding: Paperback

Condition: 2 copies.  Both copies Fair to Good.  Stapled bindings tight.  No marks, tears, bends, folds.  Page 1 of one copy appears slightly misprinted (some print darker, photograph muddy, it looks smudged), otherwise good condition.  Both copies very light edge and corner wear.

Notes: Pamphlet.  A history of the operations to bring German rocket scientists to the United States to work on rocket (and weapons) developments.  Fort Bliss, in El Paso, Texas, and White Sands Proving Ground, near Alamogordo, New Mexico, served as the primary U.S. bases for Wernher von Braun and his team of German rocket scientists.  Aside from whitewashing some who had Nazi affiliations, the U.S. government gave the Germans American citizenship (offered through the American embassy in Mexico).  These early steps led to the beginnings of NASA (in 1958), and eventually to the moon landing (in 1969).  VERY RARE.  No other copies available for sale.