Responding to secret orders, The German Air Force Test Center at Peenemunde-West, tests mechanisms for launching the Fi 103 Fieseler (V-1 ) jet-powered flying bomb ("Buzz Bomb"). Plan calls for test of drive train rail with powder propellant rocket sled catapult having final speed of 100 meters per second. View of barren snow-covered land, test shack. and launch rail. View of test sled. Caption refers to test of Rheinmetal-Borsig catapult. Dummy V-1 missile is launched on an inclined plane. Missile plunges into water with a splash. (World War II period).
Soldiers in full battle dress march on a field and climb into Ford Motor Company amphibious jeeps parked along a tree-lined street near Detroit, Michigan, in World War 2. They drive along a muddy path leading to a river, where they plunge into the water near a bridge. Views of amphibious jeeps entering water from a park-like area. They travel in loose formations and some join together, side-by-side. Views of the soldiers maneuvering in their amphibious jeeps in the water. Several jeeps leaving the water by driving up a river bank.
Soldiers in full battle dress ride in Ford Motor Company amphibious jeeps during an Army demonstration and test in World War 2. They enter a river from a park and maneuver in the water in their jeeps. Closeups of some from a bridge, as they drive under it in the water. Flotilla of jeeps maneuvering in the water. Glimpse of two soldiers standing on the bridge as a jeep passes underneath. Closeup of a jeep driving up onto a river bank.).
Soldiers in full battle dress test drive Ford Motor Company anphibious jeeps during World War 2. Film begins showing an amphibious jeep backing up in a marsh and then plunging into a river. View of two soldiers standing guard on a bridge, as several jeeps drive under it in the water. Flotilla of jeeps maneuvering in the water. Glimpse of two soldiers standing on the bridge as a jeep passes underneath. Closeup of a jeep driving up onto a river bank. Closeup of one driving past the camera. View from atop the bridge, where the two soldiers are standing. View downward from bridge as a jeep passes underneath. View from bridge as jeeps pass in both directions in the water underneath.
Numerous views of amphibious jeeps racing from land into a river in Army tests of Ford Motor Company anphibious jeeps during World War 2. The jeeps carry Army troops with full field packs. After plunging into the water, a group of the jeeps drives through the water in loose formation at a relatively slow speed. Closeups os several jeeps leaving the water and climbing a river bank.
The National Broadcasting Company in Hollywood, California. Sign on a building reads 'NBC'. Traffic in front of the National Broadcasting Company(NBC). Pedestrian traffic in front of the building, including some military personnel in uniform (it is during World War 2).
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