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German rocket developments during 1930s
A man holds two rockets. The one shown on the left with the white nose is a double rocket. (These were demonstrated for the Navy at Meppen.) Flag flying over a cabin (named "Arenshorst," by Reinhard Tiling) as rocket firing trials get underway on the island of Wangerooge in the North Sea,during December 1930. Reinhard Tiling emergea from the cabin, carrying a long slender rocket . His assistant Angela Buddenboehmer, and another man (possibly Richard Tiling) follow him across the sand dunes. Two photographers are present and several other men. Tiling inserts the rocket into a launch frame already set up. The team elevates the launcher and Tiling makes some adjustment. At a signal from Tiling, Angela Buddenboehmer pushes a plunger on the ignition control box and the rocket fires and rises. Reinhard Tiling, Buddenboehmer, and Richard Tiling watch it in the sky. Several more launches are shown. Pictures of rocket projectile missiles being launched at Dummersee on April 15, 1931, and of larger missiles at later times.
German rocket pioneer, Klaus Riedel and associates testing an Achenstaber rocket in 1931
First test of a precursor to the Mirak rocket in Germany. Diagram of the so-called Achenstaber rocket.. Rocket pioneer, Klaus Riedel, and an associate, hold the long slender rocket. A barn with sandbagged window is seen behind them. The men lower the rocket through guidance brackets in a wooden pole. The rocket fuse is ignited and the rocket rises fairly high into the sky but tilts over and dives, crashing into the ground. Riedel and associates stand near a truck carrying metal framework designed to guide a rocket.
Rocket engine designs and tests by Professor Eugen Sänger, in 1934
Rocket cooling investigations influenced rocketry pioneer, Professor Eugen Sänger's design for his rocket motor, S.R.3. View of his drawings and notes from 1934. Display of mechanical parts from the S.R.3. Items comprising test apparatus for the rocket motor, with various parts labeled. Mechanical Testing setup in Sänger's work shop and instrumentation, labeled in German, showing things such as motor thrust, pump pressure, liquid oxygen level, etc. The first burn test on March 15, 1934. Sänger stands in doorway of his workshop in Vienna, using a long pole to initiate the burn. Various views of flames emanating from the prototype rocket motor during the burn test. A revised sketch of the S.R.3 prototype rocket motor. Test of this version with flames barely visible due to complete combustion, during start-up and operation.
Battle of the Bulge and U.S. stand at Bastogne during World War II
U.S. Army forces during the Battle of the Bulge in World War II . American soldiers from the U.S. Army Headquarters Company, 75th Infantry Division celebrate Christmas, 1944, with a makeshift Christmas tree covered in ornaments. (The soldier at extreme left in the scene has been identified as T4 Jack S. De Rosa.) A pig moves on a muddy street. U.S. Army forces retreat during German breakhrough in the Ardennes. U.S. soldiers laying razor wire and then blowing up a bridge after crossing it. Belgian civilian refugees move with belongings on a road. A loaded bullock cart moves along with some refugees, some of whom are moving back into their villages according to the narrator. German aircraft bomb U.S. forces, who respond with antiaircraft fire. Bombs bursting in a village, as seen from outside buildings and looking through windows of a building. A partially destroyed home collapses. U.S. soldiers firing at aircraft using machine guns mounted on tanks. U.S. Army soldiers and medics carry wounded soldiers on stretchers during active combat. Numerous U.S. Army vehicles and weapons on fire and destroyed by the German attacks. Burning buildings in a town. A wounded U.S. Army officer with his face bandaged. Several dead American soldiers lie on the ground. Wounded American troops at a field hospital. U.S. Army holds the line at Bastogne. U.S. Army soldiers standby at machine gun emplacements, holding the line at Bastogne. Army tank in road near a road sign that says, "Bastogne." U.S. troops operating amid heavy snow. Several German soldiers or spies who infiltrated U.S. lines by American uniforms, are caught and held by U.S. soldiers. Three captured Germans are executed by firing squad. Americans fire 155mm long tom artillery pieces as they continue to advance, pushing back German forces. U.S. soldier using metal detector to mine sweep in a trench on snowy ground.
U.S. Army operations in Germany in World War II, including battle of the bulge and difficult snow and winter weather conditions
Medical Corpsmen carry a wounded U.S. soldier on a stretcher across snow covered battlefield, in World War 2. U.S. infantry firing small arms at German enemy on snow covered battlefield.They run across the field and occasionally take cover, lying down in the snow with close-up views of soldiers firing from prone position. U.S. troops on the march single file and running along path in woods in fog and snow. Troops in winter clothing, with snow encrusted, suffer wind and snow as they try to clear roadway using shovels. A tractor with a snow blade sits nearby. Snow covered U.S. troops enter a town. U.S. artillerymen fire 240mm howitzer and 155mm long tom gun, under camouflage nettings. Troops moving single file up a mountain roadway. M4 high speed tractors pulling 155mm guns along a snow covered road, shrinking Nazi progress in the Battle of the Bulge. Troops ride a tank through snow. Some soldiers wear white camouflage coveralls. Two U.S. soldiers ride in jeep over rainy muddy road with snow on roadside. "Ogden, Utah" painted on bottom of windshield. U.S. troops wade through mud and water. German prisoners of war being marched single file through a woods. Jeeps and an ambulance mired down in mud. Formation of U.S. C-47 aircraft flying low and air dropping ammunition and supplies to American forces on the ground. Soldiers rush to an air dropped bundle and distribute its contents.German prisoners of war march along a path. Four carry a wounded comrade on a stretcher. Temporary U.S. field cemetery with white wooden crosses. A temporary field cemetery with German crosses. Group of U.S. soldiers reading letters from home, and then looking up as a group to watch a formation of B-17 bombers leaving contrails at high altitude overhead. View from a B-17 as bombs explode on target below. Views from U.S. fighters strafing and firing rockets at German ground targets.View from bomber of incendiary bombs creating fires at night in Germany. A B-24 Liberator bomber seen from the ground, as it flies through smoke and flak.
Allied forces at Juelich during World War II in Germany.
Allied forces at Juelich during World War II in Germany. U.S. troops cross Roer (Rur) River in assault boats. Soldiers debark at bank. Signs "Expecting life - Finding death" and "Life is short -- War long" written on a wall at bank as a boat approaches. Ruins in Juelick. Wrecked buildings. Soldier sitting in hole in buiding wall playing a tuba. The arrowhead enclosed "T" of the U.S. Army 36th Infantry Division is clearly visible on his helmet. Soldiers on a hillside. Infantry walking through antitank obstacles at the Siegfried line.
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