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Rare Technical Report on the V1, January 1945, Reprinted in Full

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I found this unusual report in the Library of Congress Pamphlet Collection stash here in the warehouse–surprised that it was printed, and surprised that it was printed in Paris in January 1945.  Paris had been liberated by this time, but I wasn’t so sure how much of this sort of technical data would have been liberated during the last stage of the war.  Of course the Germans were past the V1 with the V2, but, still, I thought it the data was unusual to find reprinted in a technical journal (Genie Civil, 1 Januar 1945).

[Moreau, Henri (1893-1978) and Paul Chovin.  “L’arme allemande de represailles V1”, offprint from Genie Civil, 1 January 1945.  9×6 inches, 8pp, printed in Paris (newly liberated from the German army 25 August 1944) in early 1945.]  And for some reason there are no reprints of this available in libraries worldwide, or so says the OCLC/WorldCat catalog.

I’ve reprinted the document below in its entirety. Some of the text runs off the side of the scanner, but that is the best I can do in scanning the pamphlet without taking it completely apart. 

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