::: Thumbs ::: Next >> ::: this is the V1 rocket from the germans. thousands of these things fell on london and killed many people. it's later model, the V2 may have turned the war for the germans if timing had been different. what's the first thing we allies did after germans surrendered?. we took werner von braun, the architect of the german rocket program to america to build rockets for us. he was the main architect of our space program including the first landing on the moon.