PROJECT 1947

 

 

UNITED STATES FLEET             

Please refer

UNITED STATES NAVAL FORCES IN EUROPE      

to file S78-1(1)

30 GROSVENOR SQUARE     
LONDON W.1.     

Serial:

00270

 

24 AUG 1946

SECRET

 

SECRET.

 

 

 

From:

Commander, U.S. Naval Forces in Europe.

To    :

U.S. Naval Attache, Oslo.

 

 

Subject:

Rocket Bombs or Guided Missiles over Norway
and Sweden

 

 

Reference:

(a)  ALUSNA Oslo Secret Ltr. AS-2/EF50
      Serial 003 of 25 July 1946.

 

 

 

1.

Reference  (a)   invited attention to various

newspaper reports on missles flying over Scandinavia.  It
also reported that it was thought that two of these missiles
had landed in a lake near Oslo and requested specific
information concerning U.S. Naval participation in the recovery
of those or similar missiles.

 

2.

The U.S. Navy is very much interested in these

reports and in the missiles themselves.       Close contact is
maintained with British authorities who are obviously even
more interested.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

3.

 

As for an attempt being made to recover the

 

missiles reported in the lake near Oslo,   it is believed that
the effort involved could not be justified at present.
Furthermore, considering the large number of these missiles
which have been reported, it seems probable that sooner or later
some will be recovered in a fairly good condition and from a
more accessible location.

 

 

 

4.

In answer to the questions raised in paragraph

4 of your letter, the following comments are made:
           
   

(a)    The U.S. Navy is interested in this matter.
    (b)    So far there have been several persistent
        reports that the portions recovered from
        missiles have been non-ferrous. If true,		  
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

    
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UNITED STATES FLEET             

Please refer

UNITED STATES NAVAL FORCES IN EUROPE      

to file S78-1(1)

30 GROSVENOR SQUARE      
LONDON W.1.      

Serial:

00270

 

 

 

 

 

24 AUG 1946

SECRET

 

SECRET.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Subject:

 

Rocket Bombs or Guided Missiles over Norway and Sweden
         
          this would eliminate any means of magnetic
        detection and it is therefore believed that
        the best chances of a recovery will be in
        finding a missile which has landed in a known
        and accessible spot and has not been totally
        demolished.
         
    (c)    As far as it is known the U.S. Navy has no
        equipment in this area suitable for such work.		  
         
  (d)   The U.S. Navy would attempt to assist in the
        recovery by sending any personnel available
        if an invitation were received from the foreign
        government concerned. However, it is emphasised
        that there is no equipment available in this
        area and qualified personnel are extremely scarce.
           
       
 

5.
 It is obvious that outside U.S. Military and

Naval participation in such investigations would have to be
approved on a high political level.   Much information can be
obtained by attaches already on the spot and it is suggested
that ALUSNA Oslo and ALUSNA Stockholm work closely on this matter
with U.S. Military Attaches and British Naval and Military
Attaches.
     
   
     

cc:
 ONI
  ALUSNA, Stockholm
         

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