• A large rocket lays horizontally on a city street with ropes around it. A sign on top of it states that it is a captured German V-2 rocket.
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    This V-2 was displayed at the war's end in Washington, D.C., near 12th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W. It symbolized not only the end of the war, but also the new shape of possible conflicts to come.

  • A large rocket lays horizontally on a city street with ropes around it. A sign on top of it states that it is a captured German V-2 rocket.

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