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As Freeman Dyson (who was in operations research for the RAF during the war,
and was incidentally living in London during the heyday of the V-2) put it:
At that time in London, those of us who were seriously engaged in the war
were very grateful to Wernher von Braun. We knew that each V-2 cost as much
to produce as a high- performance fighter airplane. We knew that the German
forces on the fighting fronts were in desperate need of airplanes, and that
the V-2 rockets were doing us no military damage. From our point of view,
the effect of the V-2 program was almost as good as if Hitler had adopted a
policy of unilateral disarmament...
As Freeman Dyson (who was in operations research for the RAF during the war,
and was incidentally living in London during the heyday of the V-2) put it:
At that time in London, those of us who were seriously engaged in the war
were very grateful to Wernher von Braun. We knew that each V-2 cost as much
to produce as a high- performance fighter airplane. We knew that the German
forces on the fighting fronts were in desperate need of airplanes, and that
the V-2 rockets were doing us no military damage. From our point of view,
the effect of the V-2 program was almost as good as if Hitler had adopted a
policy of unilateral disarmament...
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