All About V-2 Rocket
Although the Internet did not appear until 1975 (30 years after the story’s timeline), if Slothrop happened to discover this website during the novel’s story line, well let’s just say Slothrop’s epic adventure and the novel’s story would have been insignificant and meaningless. To begin with, the website I happened to find gives a full blueprint copy of the V-2 Rockets themselves which Tyrone Slothrop was sent away by his superiors to the recently liberated French to look for the rocket’s blueprint and their specific serial code (Part II: Un Perm' au Casino Hermann Goering). The website also gave insightful technical details behind not only the current version of ballistic rocket Slothrop is searching for, but also the previous ones that have led to the development of the more advanced rockets, which would aid Slothrop in his research. From there on, Slothrop would be able to when and where the V-2 Rockets, along other ballistic missiles, have been made and launched from the detailed operational history of the V-2 Rockets given by the website, in which Slothrop was trying to find for the main plot of the novel. Marvelously, the website also provides pictures of Nazi V2 Motor Laboratories, closely relevant to where Slothrop should and have been heading to the region of northern Germany in the last chapters of Part 3: In the Zone. Alongside the plentiful images of the launches and internal view of the Rockets, there are also numerous links to other websites which leads to even greater details of the V-2 Rocket
Map of Death
The website’s link has already spoken for its content... a map with specific sites of the V-2 Rockets drops that were falling around London during World War II, or Gravity’s Rainbow timeline. If Slothrop had access to this map, he would not have to go all the way to northern Germany, because the V-2 Rocket drop zones did not reach all the way to Germany itself (Part 3: In the Zone). Additionally, the website explains that the rocket’s force is over 3000 miles per hour, breaking the speed of sound. In theory, Slothrop would be the only man/device on earth to be able to detect its approach by automatically getting an erection from the high frequency sound given by the V-2 Rocket’s thrust above the sky. Furthermore, the map shows the city of Antwerp located in Belgium, to have been the most targeted city than any other European cities during the entire war combined. This would bring Slothrop directly to Belgium to save the lives of 567 innocent lives, dyeing, without seeing and hearing what have killed them (Part 3: In the Zone).