Part of the Eastern Works (V-2 facilities in the Vienna-Friedrichshafen area), the 30 meter-high Serbs hall at the Raxwerke was selected for
V-2 manufacturing. A few V-2 center sections had been assembled by the Raxwerke when, on 2 November 1943, the US
Fifteenth Air Force targeted the nearby
Wiener Neustädter Flugzeugwerke (WNF) plant in
Operation Crossbow and hit the Raxwerke. Rax test equipment was subsequently moved to the site of the
Redl-Zipf brewery in central Austria (
code name Schlier) where V-2 test stands were built.
Werner Dahm was sent from
Peenemünde Army Research Center in Germany to the Raxwerke for the construction of an engine test stand for the
Wasserfall anti-aircraft missile (construction was never completed). ==See also==