German rocket engineer Wernher von Braun, center, surrenders to the U.S. Army in Ruette, Bavaria, on May 2, 1945. Pictured, from left, are U.S. Counterintelligence Corps agent Charles Stewart; Herbert Axster, wartime chief of staff at Peenemunde missile base; Dieter Huzel, assistant to von Braun; Wernher von Braun; Wernher's younger brother, Magnus von Braun; and engineer Hans Lindenberg.
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