Wunderwaffe: "wonder weapons" of World War II (Wikipedia.org)
World War II guided missiles of Germany (Wikipedia.org)
Peenemuende launch site (Astronautix.com)
Peenemünde launch site (Wikipedia.org)
Mittelwerk underground V-2 plant (Wikipedia.org)
Mittelbrau-Dora underground concentration camp for V-2 assembly (Wikipedia.org)
Dora and the V-2 (University of Alabama at Huntsville)
The Mittelwerk/Mittelbau/Camp Dora (V-2Rocket.com)
Mittelwerk/Nordhausen/Dora (Third Reich in Ruins)
Operation Paperclip: transfer of captured German rocket scientists to the U.S. after World War II
Operation Paperclip (Wikipedia.org)
Cuxhaven for Operation Backfire (Wikipedia.org)
Dauchau Trials of Mittelbrau-Dora camp officers after World War II (Wikipedia.org)
White Sands Missile Range Museum: see "Hall of Fame," "Missile Park," "Range History," and the memoir,
...."The Spoils of War"
White Sands, New Mexico: Missile Range History: see "Alamogordo" and "Military"
Space Race: Military Origins
White Sands Missile Range: Public Affairs: see "White Sands History," but note that many webpages are
....currently missing: use The WayBack Machine at Archive.org to recover older versions of wanted pages
....(e.g., White Sands Missile Range: V-2 Firing Tables)
White Sands Launch Complex 33 (Astronautix.com)
Establishment of the White Sands Missile Range, 1945 (New Mexico Office of the State Historian)
White Sands Missile Range (Wikipedia.org)
Launch Complex 33 at White Sands, from Man in Space, by Dr. Harry A. Butowsky, National Park Service
....(see also photographs of Launch Complex 33)
White Sands Missile Range (The Military Standard)
Tularosa Basin (Wikipedia)
White Sands National Monument: see "Climate/Map" (DesertUSA.com)
San Andres National Wildlife Refuge (U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service)
Willy Ley (Wikipedia)
Dr. Clyde W. Tombaugh (White Sands Missile Range Museum)
Dr. Wernher von Braun (White Sands Missile Range Museum)
V-2 (Wikipedia.org)
V-2 Launches, World War II and After (Wikipedia.org)
V2Rocket.com: The A-4/V-2 Resource Site: enormous trove of V-2 information
Beggs Aerospace: The Post-War V-2: enormous trove of V-2 information (see V-2 Rocket Directories)
V-2 Launch Vehicle Family: see "V-2" link down the page (Astronautix.com)
The V-Rockets (Marshall Stelzriede's Wartime Story)
Appendix 1: Early Missiles and Drones (Directory of U.S. Military Rockets and Missiles)
Hermes Project (Wikipedia.org)
WAC Corporal: amateur-built full-scale high-power rocket (John Coker's Rocketry)
Rocketry During World War II (The Military Standard)
NASA Sounding Rockets, 1958-1968: A Historical Summary (NASA SP-4401)
Sounding Rocket Launches 1944-1949 (Rocket Services corporate website)
Manned Space Flight Chronology 1900 to 1950 (ispyspace.com)
Beyond the Atmosphere: Early Years of Space Science (NASA SP-4211)
The Launch of Bumper 8 from the Cape, The End of an Era and the Beginning of Another (International
.... Astronautical Federation: IAAA-01-IAA.2.3.05)
Chronology: 20th Century: presents Russian/Soviet rocketry timeline, not covered here (RussianSpaceWeb.com)
Camp Irwin: Private launched from Camp Irwin (Astronautix.com)
Camp Irwin: Private launched from Camp Irwin (Wikipedia.org)
Camp Irwin: "Von Karman, Malina laid the groundwork for the future JPL" (JPL/NASA)
Camp Irwin: Corporal rocket testing at Camp Irwin, here called Leach Lake, Leach Springs, CA
....(Redstone Arsenal, U.S. Army)
China Lake (Inyokern) (Wikipedia.org)
China Lake (Inyokern) (China Lake Alumni Bulletin Board)
China Lake (Inyokern) (California State Military Museum)
Fort Bliss (Wikipedia.org)
Fort Bliss (The Military Standard)
Goldstone Lake: a Jet Propulsion Laboratory launch site (Wikipedia.org)
Point Mugu (U.S. Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division)
Point Mugu: Naval Air Weapons Station (California State Military Museum)
Point Mugu: Point Mugu ideal site for missile test center (The Lighthouse)
Wallops Island (NASA)
Wallops Island (Wikipedia.org)
Wallops Island multimedia (NASA)
Foo Fighter (Wikipedia)
UFO (Wikipedia)
List of UFO Sightings (Wikipedia)
Foo Fighters: UFOs of World War II (About.com)
The Foo-Fighters (UFOCaseBook.com)
Foo Fighters
Foo Fighters (HowStuffWorks.com)
Foo-Fighter Documents (CUFON.org)
A Historical and Physiological Perspective of the Foo Fighters of World War Two
Foo Fighters of WWII from UFO Report (MIQEL.com)
Foo Fighters
(Santa Fe Ghost and History Tours)
Ghost Rockets (Wikipedia)
Guided Missiles and UFOs: A Tangle of Fear—1937-53: chronology covering ghost rockets (Project 1947.com)
Aeronautics and Astronautics Chronology, 1940-1944 (NASA)
Aeronautics and Astronautics Chronology, 1945-1949 (NASA)
Modern Mechanix: Yesterday's Tomorrow Today: see Rockets and Space
A Chesley Bonestell Space Art Chronology, by Melvin H. Schuetz (PDF)
U.S. Army enlisted rank insignia of World War II (Wikipedia)
These books are all from my home collection. It is unlikely anyone will find the older ones without a dedicated long-term search, as so many books written at the dawn of the American space program, detailing early rocket experiments in the U.S., have been removed from libraries or otherwise lost. The information in them is invaluable in bringing to life those few years after World War II when scientists and military officers studying captured V-2s began to realize what they had gotten their hands on, and began to dream of what they would do with it. We were never the same afterward.
Caidin, Martin. Rockets and Missiles: Past and Future. New York: The McBride Company, 1954.
Dickson, Paul. War Slang. New York: Pocket Books, 1994.
Gatland, Kenneth W. (ed.) Project Satellite. New York: British Book Centre, 1958.
Ley, Willy. Rockets, Missiles, and Space Travel. New York: The Viking Press, 1957.
Mallan, Lloyd. Men, Rockets, and Space Rats. New York: Julian Messner, Inc., 1956
Michel, Jean, in association with Louis Nucera. Dora. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1979 (trans. Jennifer Kidd).
Parkin, Lt. Col. Charles M. Jr. (ed.) The Rocket Handbook for Amateurs. New York: The John Day Company, 1959.
Paulsen, Gary. Some Birds Don’t Fly. New York: Rand McNally & Company, 1968.
Rosen, Milton W. The Viking Rocket Story. New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1955.
Ross, Frank Jr. Guided Missiles: Rockets and Torpedoes. New York: Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Co., Inc., 1951.
Stine, G. Harry. ICBM: The Making of the Weapon That Changed the World. New York: Orion Books, 1991.