V-2 rocket launched at Holloman Air Force Base in New Mexico during World War II. Various stages of the pre-firing preparation. Technicians work on the rocket. Installation of equipment in the war head of V-2. Jeep carries instruments to the launching area. The V-2 rocket in the launching tower. A truck carries the trailer for hauling the V-2.
V-2 rocket launched at Holloman Air Force Base in New Mexico. The truck carries liquid oxygen for fueling of rocket. Personnel work on the rocket. Vapors of liquid oxygen coming out of pipe from the V-2. The rocket standing alone as the tower is removed.
V-2 rocket launched at Holloman Air Force Base in New Mexico. Red smoke comes out of the control blockhouse. The rocket ready for launch. People gathered around the rocket. Last minute adjustments made by the technicians. V-2 rocket fired. Smoke trails emitted by the rocket. The V-2 lands 30 miles away. People move around it. Wing of camera ship visible. (World War II period).
The first atomic bomb is detonated during Manhattan Project testing at Alamogordo, near Los Alamos, New Mexico. Atomic bomb explodes. Fire and a smoke cloud rises. (World War II period).
Image of test atomic bomb explosion in New Mexico during World War 2. View of the Oak Ridge Tennessee bomb fabrication plant and various other buildings of Y-12 complex involved in the Manhattan Project. Post Office erected for employees in the Oak Ridge community. Men and women scientists and war worders enter the plant, passing after security check. A citizen looks at a Knoxville Courier newspaper headline about the atomic bomb drops in Japan, seen on the bulletin board. Exterior view of the 184-inch cyclotron laboratory building at the University of California. Professor Ernest Lawrence at a panel board in his laboratory. Clouds of smoke from a atomic bomb explosion.
Atom Bomb Explosion in New Mexico. Heavy black cloud of smoke rises from the atomic bomb explosion. Fire rises with flares in the sky. (World War II period).