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Peenemünde V-2 rocket test failure at Test Stand VII on January 7, 1943. The turbopump (main stage) was activated too soon after the pilot stage (gravity feed, only):

Explosion caused by operational error

– Test Report Description, engineer Gengelbach

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1. ^ Klee, Ernst; Merk, Otto (1963, English translation 1965). The Birth of the Missile:The Secrets of Peenemünde. Hamburg: Gerhard Stalling Verlag, p34. 

Source: http://www.ww2.pl/The,%E2%80%9EEnigma,and,the,Intelligence,26.html

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