Nickerson took some crude rocket pipes. sent to the front by Ordnance. and fashioned a rocketlaunching device that they fired toward the enemy. "Colonel Nickerson was among the few who then saw the potentials of that weapon." Robertson said. "He was a soldiers soldier." The scientists with whom Colonel Nickerson worked at Redstone Arsenal. Dr. von Braun and Dr. Stuhlinger. also. now a naturalized American citizen. testified as to the effective work which Colonel Nickerson did in this field. Dr. von Braun said that he was one of the three top men on the program in the United States. These German scientists at Redstone Arsenal appreciated the work of their team for another reason alsothey knew that many of the fellowGerman scientists who had been captured on the eastern front were now working on rocket and missile development in the Soviet Union. and they knew the tremendous progress that was being made.
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