Project Paperclip Team at Fort Bliss

Group of 104 German rocket scientists in 1946, including Wernher von Braun,^[1] Ludwig Roth and Arthur Rudolph, at Fort Bliss, Texas. The group had been subdivided into two sections: a smaller one at White Sands Proving Grounds for test launches and the larger at Fort Bliss for research.^[2] Many had worked to develop the V-2 Rocket at Peenemünde Germany and came to the U.S. after World War II, subsequently working on various rockets including the Explorer 1 Space rocket and the Saturn (rocket) at NASA.

• Von Braun Rocket Team at Fort Bliss, Texas^[3]
• Members of the German rocket team who worked on rockets for Army Ordnance under Paperclip are shown at White Sands Proving Ground, New Mexico, in 1946^[4]
• Peenemünde's core personnel is reassembled at White Sands, New Mexico, in 1946.^[5]
• Von Braun group at White Sands Proving Ground, 1946^[6]