V2 Rocket - Photo Analysis
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- Опубліковано 1 сер 2024
- We analyse five photos of a V2 rocket explosion in London's East Ham on the 17th of September 1944. We reveal the hidden technical details of the A4 / V2 missile's development and combat history and the darker secrets long buried - quite literally - in these five pictures from 1944. You can jump to sections from the index below.
00:00 Introduction to V2 rocket images
03:34 Remembering the casualties
04:12 Why Operation Market Garden halted V2 rocket operations
05:53 The Big Ben code name explained
06:46 Picture 1 - The St Stephen's Road explosion
14:58 Damage to Washington Road (off St Stephen's Road)
20:00 Picture 1 - details in the street (US Lend-Lease Program)
23:20 Who pressed the shutter button?
25:12 Understanding St Stephen's road from photos
30:30 The story of the stretchers
32:45 The secret buried in Picture 1
34:28 The launch site of Big Ben 22
39:05 Picture 2 - the thrust chamber
46:18 Picture 2 - the engine cooling system explained
1:13:05 Picture 2 - slave labour - murder in the V2 factory
1:14:48 Picture 3 - the turbopump
For more information about the A4/V2 missile's turbopump see • A4 / V2 Rocket in deta...
1:25:03 Picture 4 - the small debris pile
1:33:17 Picture 5 - the larger debris pile
1:39:19 Picture 5 - the secret in plain view that explains the nature of Big Ben 22
1:55:00 Picture 5 summary
1:56:24 Conclusions and our request for feedback
1:59:03 Credits and our position statement
For more information about the combat history of the V2 missile, and for general information about the V2 visit: www.v2rocket.com/
In remembrance of those who died in the attack:
EMMA ARNOLD aged 82
ELIZABETH BURRELL aged 49
FRANCIS BULLOCK CURTIS aged 78
KATHLEEN MACMILLAN aged 20
KATHLEEN MACMILLAN aged 4
DOREEN ELIZABETH TODD aged 19
Written and presented by Robert J Dalby FRAS
Produced by DB Video Services and V2RocketHistory.com for Astronomy and Nature TV - Наука та технологія
Oh thank god!! you re still active . We badly need the second part of V2 turbopump video. Plz continue this valuble work .Your videos are incomparable with other videos abt this subject.
So I'm not the only one waiting for the second part :-)
Only a four year break 😂
Watched the entire video in one sitting, so much better than the rubbish that’s on television. Outstanding presentation thank you for taking us back to some snippets of time during the ioperational life of the weapon .
As a german I was aweare of the V2 but never thought there would be sooooo much to know about that! The Video about the turbo pump was unbelivable and brought my attention to your work. I love how you took apart those comon known pictures and show how they are all connected in your forensic way and its amazing! Cant wait to learn more from you! Thats how technical stuff should be teached in universitys!
I thoroughly enjoyed this new format. Very informative and captivating. I thought before I started watching that it might be a skip through video being 2 hours long, but I couldn't take my eyes from the screen. Please keep up the excellent work and it is great to have you back.
Welcome back! Are you still working on the second part of the V2 turbopump video? I had an absolute blast watching the first one!
i am also waiting for same.
Me too!
brilliant analytics. thank you very much Mr Holmes
I grew up in Huntsville, one of my friends used to carpool with von Braun's children and I've learned more from this channel than talking to the old timers.
OMG - Lovely to have you back!!!!!
Can't wait to finally hear about the 8 ton valve!
Mr. Dalby
Congratulations here from Brazil!
Your return to UA-cam is very welcome!
Your videos on A4/V2 technology are invaluable!
The turbopump video alone I must have watched four times!
Thanks for more of these videos and hope for more!!!!
Robert, this video is simply AMAZING. As a enthusiast of everything Apollo, I have recently turned my attention to Operation Paperclip. This is how I stumbled on to your channel. Your analysis and explanations are incredible. Thank you for sharing this slice of history with us.
I don’t how long it took you to research and put these videos together but I just want to say thank you. I’ve learned more about how the V2’s were built and fired from these video’s. You attention to detail is insane in a good way. Thank you sir!
Very interesting and sobering investigative video without the jingoism. Thank you for that.
One point you made at the end regarding the air tank has me wondering. If indeed the vehicle broke up in it's decent to the ground, wouldn't one expect a bit more of a trail of debris along it's flight path, especially those lighter or less aerodynamic parts that would decelerate faster due to air resistance and fall short of the final impact site.
I appreciate that debris of all sorts in the streets was common so could have been ignored, apart from the tank that was bomb-like. However given the involvement of the military and no doubt intelligence services at the scene, it seems odd that no more was found in the wider search. Their findings may have been kept secret of course so we shall never know.
There were even other highly innovative rocket scientists working at Skoda Pribram plant for the SS, they developed the huge solid fuel V101 Skoda designed Rocket that was tested at 16.03.1945 in Rudisleben Arnstadt from Polte 2 plant, this one was flying radio guided over North Norway to come down near the North Pole region. it only missed its projected target by 6 Meters! That was quite something back in 1945, It was designed by a Dr.Büdewadt and Dr. Teichmann. V-101 was a solid fuel rocket, with THRUST 100 tons (not the amount of fuel). Range more than 1800 km, altitude 200 km. Designed by Dr. Büdewald and Dr. Teichmann at Skoda together with the SS group led by Hans Kammler. Length 30,26 m, width 2,82 m, weight 146 tons.
Very impressive on the info in photos. I just saw photo and you showed me how they can get so much info out of a photo. I now understand how the can figure out crashes of planes , space shuttle accidents etc. Thank you. I learned alot.
Needed a break around 1h30m mark, but I have actually watched 2h. Not many can hold my attention this long on yt. Great work. Love it.
Absolutely fantastic video and analysis. One minor suggestion; this rocket impact may be more accurately described as an in-flight breakup. The term air burst implies that it was intentionally detonated in the air in the same manner as an air burst artillery shell.
I was going to ask a similar thing. He implied that the rocket broke up in the air although the warhead didn't explode until it hit the buildings. Is this what his final assessment was?
Glad you're still making videos! Looking forward to watching this later.
Congratulations on producing one of the most interesting videos I have ever seen on You Tube. Superb detective work. Excellent clear presentation. Loved the comparisons between the photos and real debris/relics. Well done! :-)
These presentations give the right level of engineering and technical details that I am interested in.
Why are these parts designed this way, what materials was used, how it was put together.
I would love to say that I have learned a lot about rocket design and function from the videos but
I must admit the Robert’s voice is so calm and relaxing that I drift in and out of consciousness
while watching them only to wake myself from the sound of my own snoring and to realise that 15
minutes of the video has played while I was deep in slumber. It takes me a number of tries to get through
one video, not from the lack of enthusiasm or indeed from a lack of understanding, but simply because
once the voice track starts the lullaby voice inevitably send my curious mind down the soft comfy road to slumberland.
Well done to you and the team. This must have been hundreds of hours work and you pulled out some magnificent detail. And you prove time travel is never invented! The way you find and expose the clues had me riveted, brilliant work, well presented and a charm to watch and listen too. I am about to binge watch everything else V2 related on your channel.
For the first time ever on the tube, an educated, forensic examination of the facts. 😊
The Burges Road investigation was a fantastic piece of photographic forensics.
The V2 detective. Absolutely love it!
I also prefer the long format. Thanks for making these.
Mr. Dalby, I have been watching these for years- multiple times. These videos are an absolute treasure and I’m sure are going to be viewed for many decades if not centuries. This series is important to the understanding of multiple important aspects of our history as human beings. Highest acclaim from me.
That was very interesting! I live close to Serooskerke and the former launch site is now ironically called Vrederust (translates to Peacecalm).
There were an estimated total of 6 V2's fired at London from Walcheren in September 1944. The rockets were stored in Middelburg and later on, during the night, shipped to Serooskerke.
Supposedly 2 rockets failed to launch.
One of the transport vehicles took a wrong turn and ended up in front of a blacksmith, where they tried to turn around. The daughter of the blacksmith (Jos de Ligny) was fortunate enough to take a photograph of the vehicle and rocket with her Agfabox from her bedroom window and another from her neighbour's house.
The Dutch Resistance sent the 2 photos to England. The rocket she photographed was fired on the 17th of September 1944.
This kind of analysis (both the target site and the weapon) is exactly what I have wanted to see. Excellent! Please let's have more of these. Thank you.
What an amazing video. Thank you for making this, and for providing background facts. You honor those who gave their lives in this war. Thanks.
Bravo! What a forensic tour de force! I am impressed, and eagerly await further videos!
Thank you, I was born 3 years later in Barking.
V2 (Big Ben) Incident No. 755 Tuesday 13th February 1945 18:52 - In its fifth major incident in two weeks, West Ham was struck again, in Queen Street, Stratford where 28 died .
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Noted :- Because Queen Street is no longer there (destroyed), and was yards away from my Gran's corner Cafe on Windmill Lane, Stratford, West Ham, London. (now/was a Community Centre and in audio range of the Pub)
(This backs up a family story and memories of the 1/2 mile square bombsite wasteland resulting the attempted destruction of Stratford Rail Work (were my father worked))
Please, please, do not chop these investigations, or anything else you do, into smaller parts. This has been totally enthralling all the way through and saves a lot of searching around for this part and that part which never seem to connect up.
Thank you.
Welcome back, thanks for the upload.
The blast damage would actually be higher if the V2 broke up in flight - because an intact V2 would bury its warhead deeper in the ground (up to 10 m). The tumbling warhead would be more likely to be subsonic when it detonated much higher in the house structure than the Mach 2 of an intact rocket.
Similar effects were seen with the Gulf war SCUD’s (a very direct descendant of the V2) breaking up over Israel.
I was thinking the exact same thing. If the warhead buries itself into the ground just before it detonates would attenuate the shockwave due to the cratering and mostly upward direction of the explosion.
Really appreciate the effort you put into your videos! Highly interesting and informative presentation!
I have a few A4/V2 pieces in my collection (probably the biggest or the only collection in Brazil!). And I learned from your video about the turbopump, the value of the “pressure contact piece” (druckkontakt) of the gas generator, which I have a copy!
Using Google Maps to put it in current day perspective, was fascinating, if a little chilling.
The reason why there are more recent buildings in the road.
Washington Road, the reason for the orange roof tiles.
My grandparents house was affected by the shockwave of one of these missiles.
Interesting to see the photos, and what you manage to get out of them.
I remember as a youngster, the many "bombsites" in SE London during the 50's and 60's.
"Gone for a Burton"! :)
Air burst, the tank, could it have fallen off on approach? Causing a failure.
Excellent detective work! Thanks for all your hard work on this terrible event in ww2. But also very fascinating information.
First one I have seen but absolutely fascinating/riveting and I want more! Can’t comment on changed format as haven’t seen previous ones but loved this one. Excellent history and amazing forensic technical explanation. Off to share with friends I know will feel the same!
Just recently discovered the channel. The V2 stuff is first class. I particularly enjoyed this video. So much research and informed opinion. Thanks so much. I can't wait for the next set of photos.
Hi Tony and thanks for posting, glad to hear you liked it. if you haven't already done so, please don't forget to subscribe - it helps us more than you might think and ensures you won't miss our next upload on the A4/V2 missile. KR A&NTV
Fascinating detective work, every thing but the PC's name in the picture.
My mother and family lived in East Ham though out the war and must have witness the
rocket strike but as is so common of the time it was never mentioned.
I love your V2 videos, they are wonderfully informative on this amazing (for it's time) technology!
I’m not sure I see the pipe damage being caused by vacuum created by a closing fuel valve at a height of 30 km as mentioned at 1:05:38. It’s not vacuum that crushes pipes, it’s outside pressure. At 30 km altitude, the outside atmospheric pressure (the force that would be available to crush the pipe) is very low, less than 50hPa, and maybe more like 25 hPa. That is just 2-5% of sea level pressure assuming a perfect vacuum inside the pipe. One would imagine that the pipe temperature would have to be well into its softening range for it to be this soft.
I had the same thought
Thanks for making these videos. More is always welcome! :)
You blow my mind ! It was like traveling back in time with your photo analysis. So compelling., amazing content, great narration, what's not to like.
Just found your channel again after all my channels suddenly had no subscription. Anyway totally fascinating video . Don't know how else to describe it. Thank you. Will look forward to seeing more.
This is amazing. Thank you for all of your V2 videos
Thank you Robert, for another deep dive into the history and technology of the A4/V-2 combat rocket!
Thoroughly enjoyed that. Thankyou. Awoke at 4am with toothache and watching this took my mind off it as it was fascinating from start to finish. As indeed all your videos are.
I truly am fascinated by your videos on the V2 , please keep them coming….thank you so much for your content
Absolutely fascinating video, I really hope you do more of these!
Very well presented and awesome observations! Well done and continue the series!
Wow this was so we'll done Robert, thank you so much for sharing such an important V2 historical proof of its balstic path and it's structures.
Thank you for all of these very good videos. You startet my interest in space and astronomy as well as rocket science. I love your didactical approach and it is allways a pleasure to listen to your voice. Please continue your videos. You do have a real fan from Berlin, Germany.
Fortunately, before watching this video I had already seen the others in which you very clearly explain how the V2 works, so I loved watching this video because I understood all the forensic work perfectly. Thanks and congratulations.
Very disappointed that I'm just discovering this channel. I can't express how informative and important these videos are for public consumption. Truly an exhilarating time to be alive. Thanks for the hard work!
Very well done indeed. I have learned a lot from your videos and would like to see more. Please keep up the outstanding work!
Amazing analysis and gripping stuff.
Thank you for these amazing video's. Have just stumbled upon them & the attention to detail is incredible.
Amazing work. Two hours on a Sunday morning well spent.
About time I let you know how wonderful your channel is. Great stuff.
That was amazing, well done, awesome detail, and so fascinating I watched twice !
Hello. Thanks for producing this video. I found it amazing to watch as you breakdown the various details in these pictures. A trip to England is on my bucket list from Canada and I hope to visit some of these museums and see first hand these horrific yet interesting pieces of history.
Great seeing the Time matching to the present day , the colour pics were great but haunting to remind you of the poor Souls who were forced into the construction of these Weapons .
it's been 5 months i am waiting for the video from this channel. btw love your videos. 😍😍😍
Fabulous forensic storytelling!
Best ever detailed analysis on V2. Thank you!
Great video, great explanations. Waiting for the second part of the V2 turbopump video. Stay safe!
Welcome back. Excellent report!
Excellent video,very detailed.This is one to be watched many times!!!
I genuinly love Your videos!
Regarding the vacuum damaged pipework. If the V2 is re-entering at supersonic speed the tail end around the engine would be in a low pressure area / vacuum. This would get inside any pipework which has an open end over a period of time. Then when the V2 suddenly stops / breaks up, the outside of the pipes would be exposed to atmospheric pressure, and any thin wall pipes which are unable to instantly equalise pressure due to only being fed through restricted small holes would be crushed.
That is a very interesting and plausible explanation.
What a brilliant forensic analysis! Thank you!
This is absolutely mindbugling. Give us Part 2 please.
Fantastic historical analysis. Sincerely appreciated!
This is incredible. I just found your channel from the turbo pump part 1.
You should get the software they use on TV where all you have to do is click enhance 3 times.
Good work fine sir
Watch the entire video. Thank you for you hard work. Great video
Absolutely fascinating. Well done and thank you for sharing this.
Interesting analysis of the pics of the first hit - both pics look to be taken within minutes/hours of each other by the same photographer - same quality of photograph, same truck, same crane, and the relationship between the two is the same. Once you realize that the row of rubble isn't in the middle of the road but all on the left hand side it all makes sense. The first pic taken from the right hand side of the road, the second picture from the left hand side. The stretcher is what gives it away plus that distinctive broken tree branch. Love the detailed analysis of the photos - brilliant!
Good job man. Great detective work.
Make the videos any length you want.
Absolutely compelling watching. Look forward to more in this vein.
Incredible documentary . I've had a deep interest in the whole of the space program since I was a child in the Sixties. My Mum lived through the the Blitz on Belfast.In her last year's of her life, she recounted very graphically what she saw as a 14 yr old .It was really horrible. Also when living in London during the early Eighties, I was shown around Clapton Common , by a local, lines of houses that had been taken out by German sticks of bombs. These homes where replaced with newer but ugly buildings.Street after street we walked following the fall of the bombs. It was in Pitcairn Street to begin with. But it's all gone now. Thank you for you work.
A very good, well researched series. Thank you.
The technological level, about fifteen years ahead, and the concentration in a single nation are impressive.
A superb video, the very "aircraft crash investigation" of one of the first ballistic missile attacks; well researched and presented in a scientific way.
Good to hear your original A4 air tank is still in tune, as the cost of re-tuning has skyrocketed nowadays.
Only just discovered this channel and I found this 'feature length' detailed analysis of Big Ben Incident 22 completely fascinating. I live in London and very interested in the Blitz, in fact it affected me personally as my grandfather only survived the explosion of a 'parachute mine' in Blackheath due to taking cover under a sturdy dining room table. Otherwise my mother (and me) wouldn't be here now. Quite amusing that Robert states at the start this is 'one of a series of short videos', so goodness knows how long the 'long videos' are :)
Beautiful video. Amazing knowledge and work.
I was so glad to see some new content. I should have been in bed hours ago, but your content is so good and compelling, I'm still here having been glued for the whole duration. I'm sick and tired of watching 10 minute videos that don't have time to get into detail about stuff, so seeing your two hour time line only increased my interest. As usual your quality content kept me watching.
No doubt the two survivors were well glad it was an air burst though they would never have known.
Shouldn't it be possible to put a name to the two identified policemen ? The one in the photo and the other that chalked his ID on the found cylinder ? Just a bit more detail behind the story - it wasn't the same police man was it ? Wasn't the first K12 and the other K24 ?
I'm sure you probably know but didn't use for other reasons, Google Earth the app has an adjustable 'time line' so giving you access to previous years photos. I don't know if it covers East London, but the whole of the South East of England was photographed by air recon, and this has been integrated into Google Earth giving access to that air recon project, for 1940. It was done for the most up to date information pending the expected Invasion of England. The quality often isn't all that great, but it is there and freely available.
What can I say ? Super interesting and informative, 2 hours passing like a breeze ! :)
Fascinating! I watched the whole thing and am late for bed, but really interesting, Thanks
Wow great video... sometimes UA-cam do a good job finding really good videos, that have low visit but incredible great content
This was a really a very interesting video indeed.
Its amazing what can be done with information that we all tend to overlook.
I wonder how many people who actually lived through this are aware of how much more damage could have been created by this missile had it not broken up on entry, please keep these vidios coming they are most informative.
Excellent re-evaluation.
Wonderful video - thank you so much.
I recently read Michael J. Neufeld's biography of von Braun. In the biography, Neufeld mentions an incident which took place sometime in 1945 in which von Braun was being driven by an RAF driver from his lodgings in Wimbledon to central London during his debriefing by British authorities, presumably as part of Operation Backfire.
One morning on the journey the RAF driver stopped at a V2 impact site to allow von Braun some time to inspect the site. No mention is made if this was at the instigation of the driver or von Braun or what conclusions von Braun drew from his inspection, if any.
Anyway, the details of the incident are most likely lost to history but perhaps there are more details to be uncovered?
And again thanks for your wonderful A4/V2 videos.
This video should have million views
Amazing video .... such a treasure of information !!!!!
Absolutely fantastic. Thanks
I'm amazed of V2 series. Great job!
What a breath taking collection of information on that V2 technology. Amazing work. One question: didn´t Germany ever considered the use of a solid propellant as is usual today in Boosters ? Maybe not based on the present Amonnium perchlorate and Hydroxylated Rubber ( as is the case of modern Space |Shuttle boosters) but maybe some other chemical combination ? They would have no need of the turbopump and all these complicated pumps. Again, Congratulations from Brazil.
Such delicious detail. Thank you SO much. I'm an aviation engineer, but I know nothing in the grand scheme of things.
Thank you for sharing. I find it extremely interesting.
Excellent analysis and discussion.
Wow this is fantastic detective work, great work sir.