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'Death rode the wings of the wind': The story of a 1928 Montgomery County plane crash - Focus on History

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'Death rode the wings of the wind': The story of a 1928 Montgomery County plane crash - Focus on History

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The First Malta Rocket Test

The First Malta Rocket Test By Paul Perreault | Sponsored by The Saratoga County History Roundtable | History View of Rocket Test from Observation Bunker. Photo provided. O n Christmas morning, December 25, 1945, the residents of Malta were startled by a loud noise coming from the heart of Luther Forest. It was not the clatter of Santa’s reindeer on the roof but instead America’s race to the Moon had begun. Toward the end of World War II the American Army became concerned about the V-2 missiles Germany was raining on London so they asked that engineers from the Schenectady General Electric plant go to Europe and interview the captured Germen scientists and select the papers, drawings and actual rocket parts to be shipped back to America. A team, under the direction of Dr. Richard Porter, went to Peenemunde and Nordhausen where the rockets had been developed. They interviewed Werhner von Braun and his team, confiscated “tons” of papers and drawings, as