Today in Military History: Feb. 6, 1948, V-2 Rocket testing
On February 6, 1948, for the first time, the U.S. Army successfully uses electronic guidance on a V-2 rocket, in a 70-mile ascent at White Sands Proving Ground, N.M. The V-2 Rocket was natively German but was brought back to the United States after World War II. Research and experimentation on the V-2’s took place at…