RichardQ Loc: Colorado

I'm glad it came through Hurricane Matthew, Cape Codder! Thanks for commenting.

RichardQ Loc: Colorado

Thanks for taking the time to comment, MTG44. I enjoy creating these posts!

RichardQ Loc: Colorado

Thanks for your feedback, William J. Renard. Actually, we eventually felt that Stalin wasn't interested in over-running all of Europe, much less in taking on the USA. The Russians outnumbered our Occupation forces by an estimated 10 to 1, so they easily could have taken us in 1946, especially since we immediately began downsizing in 1945. The combat GIs wanted to go home because the Germans were beaten. The Occupation army was made up of green kids like me. We were not issued weapons, at least not in the Army Air Force, and we had virtually no fighters or bombers left. It was a nervous time, but we didn't know anything about von Braun. Anyway, we knew (and the Russians knew) that we had atomic bombs, which were a far more imposing threat than Wernher von Braun.

RichardQ Loc: Colorado

I forgot to include a photo of the 19-year-old Maria Luise von Quistorp, who became Frau Wernher von Braun in 1947. Wernher's parents were adamant that he had to marry someone in the same aristocratic class. Wernher and his father inherited the German title of Freiherr (Baron) and, according to Wikipedia his mother, Emmy von Quistorp, was a decendant of Philip III of France, Valdemar I of Denmark, Robert III of Scotland, and Edward III of England. Maria was Wernher's maternal first cousin. He had to have special permission to fly back to Occupied Germany for the wedding and to enable her to emigrate to the U.S. at a time when no immigration quota existed for Germans.

Baroness Maria Luise von Braun, nee von Quistorp

sinatraman Loc: Vero Beach Florida, Earth,alpha quaudrant

in the words of comedian and math professor Tom Lehr " call him a nazi he wont even frown, nazi schmatzi says werner von Braun, Also " when the rockets go up who cares where they come down, its not my department says werner von brahn