Walter Jacobi

Walter Jacobi (1918-2009) was a German engineer who specialised in guided-missile structures during the Second World War and then spent his working life as a member of the German rocket team in the United States. He arrived under Project Paperclip on 16 November 1945, aboard the Argentina from Le Havre, with the group of German rocket specialists brought to America after the war. He worked with the team at Fort Bliss, White Sands and then Huntsville, Alabama, and he lived in Huntsville until his death on 19 August 2009 at the age of 91. The Encyclopedia Astronautica entry is short and gives no individual project credits, so this entry records only his specialty, his arrival with the team, and his long career with it, and it does not claim any particular rocket or programme for him.