Wernhner von Braun goes to America before WWII

Let's say for whatever reason, von Braun leaves Germany prior to WWII and goes to America. You can use your own imagination for his reasons for leaving: offered better opportunities then he was getting in Germany, felt that the Nazis weren't interested enough in his work (not that big a stretch considering Hitler didn't really get interested until 1942 when the war started turning against the Nazis).

Now how would this affect the war effort for either side? How might the Allies have done if they'd had V1 or V2 rockets (or their AH counterparts)? How would the Nazi war effort have gone if they hadn't sunk so much time and resources into the rockets?
 
Let's say for whatever reason, von Braun leaves Germany prior to WWII and goes to America. You can use your own imagination for his reasons for leaving: offered better opportunities then he was getting in Germany, felt that the Nazis weren't interested enough in his work (not that big a stretch considering Hitler didn't really get interested until 1942 when the war started turning against the Nazis).

Now how would this affect the war effort for either side? How might the Allies have done if they'd had V1 or V2 rockets (or their AH counterparts)? How would the Nazi war effort have gone if they hadn't sunk so much time and resources into the rockets?

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If von Braun goes to the US before WWII, he gets no funding, and maybe works in an airplane factory.

If the US had wanted good rockets, they had Goddard and they had the people at GALCIT (sp?). They didn't.

V2s would NOT have happened if vB had moved to the US.

V1s were neither rockets nor had anything to do with von Braun.
 
You know what von Braun was, vs Goddard or even von Karman at Guggenheim Aeronautical Laboratory(the GAL from GALCIT)?

An awesome salesman who was a great engineering processes guy.

And a guy who thought big.

So say vB show up in 1938.

von Karman would get him job at Aerojet, pronto.

V2?

Nope, but big liquid fueled rocket chambers for other things.

No vB probably keeps Hellmuth Walter from getting anywhere with his initial peroxide based powerplants, that got Heinkel and Messerschmidt thinking about jet propulsion, besides his RATO units.

Big butterflies flapping.
 
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