V-2 rocket facilities of World War II

[2] V-2 rocket documents and drawings were hidden in a mine at Dörnten (14 tons[clarification needed] from Peenemünde) and buried at Bad Sachsa (260 lbs from Walter Dornberger's headquarters at Schwedt-an-der-Oder).

[5] Initial plans for large launch bunkers at Watten and Wizernes with a radar station at Prédefin[8]: 182  were abandoned due to the Allied bombing targeted against them.

[8] Testing of production motors at the Southern Works was originally conducted in late 1943 at Oberraderach near Friedrichshafen,[5]: 95  but was shut down shortly after going into operation because firings were visible from Switzerland across Lake Constance.

[6]: 207  Raxwerke motor testing equipment was eventually moved to the Redl-Zipf facility in central Austria, which used forced labor of the Schlier-Redl-Zipf[6]: 207  subcamp of the Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp.

Original plans had also included liquid oxygen production in the Watten and Wizernes bunker complexes but machines were taken out and construction work ceased in July 1944 after repeated Allied bombings.

At the end of the V-2 campaign in early March 1945 liquid oxygen was supplied from Oberraderach, Lehesten, Redl-Zipf and opportunistically in small quantities from local producers as the transport infrastructure collapsed.

World War II map shows the two areas where the Germans were setting up their secret "V" weapons to bombard Englan
A World War II map shows the two areas where the Germans were setting up their secret "V" weapons to bombard England (right, center). These are the areas in which the Royal Air Force and 8th Air Force heavy bombers concentrated their bombs in order to knock out the weapons -- part of the pre-invasion plan. This event was given the operational code name Crossbow during World War II.