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The pre-firing preparation and launch of the V-2 rocket at Holloman Air Force Base in New Mexico (WW2)

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.

Date: 1945, July
Duration: 59 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675031546
The fueling and the launching of the V-2 rocket at Holloman Air Force Base in New Mexico.

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.

Date: 1945, July
Duration: 53 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675031547
Last minute preparations and launch of the V-2 rocket at Holloman Air Force Base in New Mexico.

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).

Date: 1945, July
Duration: 1 min 32 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675031548
Fire and a smoke cloud rises due to first Atomic Bomb explosion, known as the Trinity test, at Alamogordo, New Mexico.

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).

Date: 1945, July 16
Duration: 2 min 35 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675046553
Atom Bomb Explosion in New Mexico; employees of Oak Ridge Tennessee bomb factory; cyclotron in California.

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.

Date: 1945, August 12
Duration: 1 min 17 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: German
Clip: 65675023238
Black smoke rises from Atom Bomb Explosion in New Mexico.

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).

Date: 1945, August 12
Duration: 1 min 59 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: German
Clip: 65675023239