In her new book, “Operation Paperclip: The Secret Intelligence Program that Brought Nazi Scientists to America,” writer Annie Jacobsen condemns actions taken by U. S. Presidents and ...

Oscar Carl Holderer, the last member of Dr. Wernher von Braun's original "Operation Paperclip" team that built the Saturn V moon rocket, died Tuesday in Huntsville, Ala. He was 95. Born in Preum ...

In Operation Paperclip, ... Werner von Braun (1912-1977), the German-born American rocket engineer with model rockets. Hulton Deutsch—Corbis via Getty Images. By Alejandro de la Garza.

Recently, I was asked about Operation Paperclip and Wernher Von Braun. A group of German scientists, including Wernher von Braun, were brought to Fort Bliss. The secret mission was dubbed ...

Under Operation Paperclip, von Braun worked alongside other key members of his V-2 rocket team to develop guided rockets. While the Saturn V rocket was the most famous of these post-war creations, ...

How Operation Paperclip helped fuel the space race In the 1950s and 1960s, the American space program accelerated as the U.S. and Soviet Union vied to put a man on the moon.

The first, which von Braun designed in 1948 while interned by the U.S. Army with other Operation: Paperclip Germans in the New Mexico desert, was relatively stubby. It is not pictured here.

Operation Paperclip was real, and Werner von Braun was a real rocket scientist brought to the U.S. The U.S. first brought the German rocket scientists to Fort Bliss, Texas, but in the ‘50s, von ...

Wernher von Braun: The Rocket Pioneer Perhaps the most famous figure to emerge from Operation Paperclip was Wernher von Braun, a German aerospace engineer and the chief architect of the V-2 rocket.

Von Braun and his team were held and debriefed in a fairly comfortable castle in Kransberg and then recruited under a program that came to be called Operation Paperclip.