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Title: Willy Achim Fiedler papers
Dates: 1933-1998
Collection Number: 95009
Creator: Fiedler, Willy Achim, 1908-1998.
Collection Size:
15 manuscript boxes, 1 oversize box
(6.4 linear feet)
Repository:
Hoover Institution Archives
Stanford, California 94305-6010
Abstract: Correspondence, writings, notes, memoranda, technical reports, patent applications, clippings, other printed matter, video
tape, sound recording, and photographs, relating to the German missile development program during World War II, and to postwar
American missile development programs, especially the Polaris missile and other submarine launched ballistic missiles.
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Archives
Languages: In
English
German
Collection is open for research.
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copies of audiovisual items. To listen to sound recordings or to view videos or films during your visit, please contact the Archives
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[Identification of item], Willy Achim Fiedler papers, [Box number], Hoover Institution Archives.
Acquired by the Hoover Institution Archives in 1995.
Materials may have been added to the collection since this finding aid was prepared. To determine if this has occurred, find
the collection in Stanford University's online catalog at
http://searchworks.stanford.edu/ . Materials have been added to the collection if the number of boxes listed in the online catalog is larger than the number
of boxes listed in this finding aid.
German-American engineer; chief scientist, Lockheed Missiles and Space Company.
Scope and Content of Collection
Correspondence, writings, notes, memoranda, technical reports, patent applications, clippings, other printed matter, video
tape, sound recording, and photographs, relating to the German missile development program during World War II, and to postwar
American missile development programs, especially the Polaris missile and other submarine launched ballistic missiles.
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
United States. Navy--Weapons systems.
Lockheed Missiles and Space Company.
World War, 1939-1945--Aerial operations.
World War, 1939-1945--Germany.
Polaris (Missile)
Nuclear weapons.
Engineers.