Bidspirit auction | Rare 1943 German V-2 Rocket

Rare 1943 German V-2 Rocket Report Signed by Wernher Von Braun - Original V-2 Flight Test #23 Report dated June 18, 1943 and hand signed by Wernher Von Braun. An absolutely amazing original report from the German Secret Command. This is a true piece of Rocket History. ***This report is of a German V-2 (A4) rocket, stamped as top secret (”Geheime Kommandosache”), signed on the second page in blue indelible pencil by Wernher Von Braun. The report provides flight results, tracking charts and one original glossy photo of the launch at the Peenemunde Army Research Center. Peenemunde was the secret German rocket base run by Wernher Von Braun where the V-2 was developed, produced and tested during WWII. After the war, Wernher Von Braun and a hundred of his key V-2 personnel emigrated to the United States in Operation Paperclip where their knowledge was leveraged in the development of the Redstone missile and subsequent Saturn launch vehicles. This document offers a remarkable historic record of an early V-2 flight. The scheme of the report later used by Wernher Von Braun and his team in evaluating the Saturn rockets. Any original document pertaining to V-2 tests at Peenemunde is exceedingly rare and the presence of Von Braun's early autograph elevates this piece to the apogee of early rocketry ephemera. The original photograph of the launch is , likewise, of the utmost historical interest.*** Every page of the report is shown in the pictures.