Technicians make preparations for launch inspect the various parts of rocket at White Sands, New Mexico. A crane is wielded on tracks to facilitate fueling and checking of missile. Fuel is loaded into tanks of rocket. Final checks are made before its launch. 1947.
Launch of V-2 rocket at White Sands,New Mexico. Weather and wind velocity checks are made, radar devices are adjusted. In the Block house crew members begin the countdown for the rocket launch and launch it into space. They keep a check on the course of rocket through radar. Crew maps the point of impact and moves to the site. Collect the wreckage of missile to the launching station for analysis. Scene of conference held to discuss the performance of missile. 1947.
American Expeditionary Forces (AEF) soldiers in full battle gear, march from Camp Merritt, and descend to Old Closter Dock, at Alpine Landing, as they prepare to embark on ferries that will carry them down the North River to the Hoboken Port of Embarkation on the New Jersey side of the Hudson River. Camera pans over troops assembled on a pier as they march past a sign reading "Alpine Landing." Ferries are seen in water. (World War i; World War 1; WWI; WW1)
The "Human Liberty Bell" composed from 25,000 Officers and men at Fort Dix, New Jersey during World War 1, by photographers Arthur Mole and John Thomas who took them from an 80 foot tower with a large format camera. The U.S. Government contracted Mole and Thomas to create a number of such photographs as a morale booster during world war 1. (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1)
Scenes of the South Western region of the United States. A map shows Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Arizona and Colorado. Scenic sweeping wide views of Mountains, plains and canyons in the United States in lofty mountainous area. View of the Grand Canyon. Tourists visit ruins. Ruins of Aztec dwellings in the Chaco Canyon area. The Pueblos at Santa Fe. Native American Indian Navaho Indians weave rugs. Indian Men and cowboys on wheel carts and horses in a dry area. Women sow seeds in the farm. Cattle grazing and Sheep graze in a field. A copper mine.
A white and orange barrage balloon in the sky at the Mobile Test Station of the Air Force Flight Dynamics Laboratory in New Mexico. The balloon tethered with metal cables. The barrage balloon in flight.
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