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 ...

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 ...

Von Braun was one of about 120 German scientists who, in a then-secret U.S. project known as Operation Paperclip, were taken to the U.S. to develop military technology.

Book Review: 'Operation Paperclip' In the final months of World War II, the United States undertook an enormous effort to attract Nazi scientists to the U.S. Writer Annie Jacobsen's new book ...

After World War II, Operation Paperclip quietly recruited German scientists to work on its most advanced weapons and space programs—including some who had been active in the Third Reich.

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.

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.

The United States has its sights set on absorbing the Nazi V-2 missile program, thanks to the wartime research of German facilities by JPL scientists Theodore von Karman and Tsien Hsue-Shen.

Wernher Magnus Maximilian Freiherr von Braun (March 23, 1912 – June 16, 1977) was a German-American rocket scientist, engineer, space architect, and one of the leading figures in the development ...

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.