In article ,
(robert arndt) wrote:

"Keith Willshaw" wrote in message
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'Goddard was ahead of us all '
Werner Von Braun

Right... Germany got it's rocketry from Oberth, not Goddard:
http://www.oberth-museum.org/museum_e.htm

....and Oberth got his from Goddard.

Oberth's first liquid rocket engine came about fifteen years after
Goddard's first patent for a liquid fueled rocket motor, and three years
after Goddard's first successful flight.

Gyroscopic control, steering through vanes in the exhaust, gimbaled
thrust... Goddard was there first, and Oberth and the rest of the
Germans followed in his footsteps some years later.

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