German ballistic missile A-4 being launched during tests in Peenemunde, Germany during World War II. An A-4 missile on a launch pad. Smoke rises from the tail section. Smoke rises as the A-4 missile lifts off emitting a fiery flare. The missile in flight as it emits a flare.
A German ballistic missile A-4 being launched during tests in Peenemunde, Germany during World War II. An A-4 missile on a launch pad on a snow covered field. Smoke rises from the tail section. Billows of smoke rise as the A-4 missile lifts off emitting a fiery flare.
A German ballistic missile A-4 being launched during tests in Peenemunde, Germany during World War II. Long shot of an A-4 missile on a launch pad. Smoke rises from the tail section. Billows of smoke rise as the A-4 missile lifts off emitting a fiery flare. The missile in flight. Rapid course corrections by rocket as it rises in the sky.
The 4th Infantry Division Dragon Mountain Base Camp is renamed Camp Enari in the honor of USA 1st Lieutenant Mark N Enari who was the 1st Fourth Infantry Division soldier to receive the Silver Star posthumously. Soldiers stand at ease on the ground. A few soldiers hold flags. Red Cross girls stand in honor. Dedications address by Lt Gen Stanley R Larsen, CG 1st Field Forces Vietnam and U.S. Army Maj Gen William R Peers, Commander, 4th Infantry Division from a makeshift dais. They move towards the veiled main gate of the camp. Two soldiers stand in attention at either side of the veiled gate. Lt Gen Stanley R Larsen and Maj Gen William R Peers unveil the plaque with the help of the two soldiers. The troops salute. The officers move back to the dais. Senior officers take their places. Soldiers sit on the chairs. Massed troops in formation, color guards. Troops hold webbing and salute. A bespectacled U.S. lieutenant colonel reads citation. (Vietnam War period).
Views of what appears to be a smooth launching of a Titan missile. The service structure erector is released and the missile takes off. The camera tracks it as it moves ever higher, with rocket motors burning smoothly. As its image begins to get quite small in the distance, at TC:01:26, the missile begins failing, and explodes in a huge fireball. (Note: This was Missile C-4, the ninth Titan I launch and the second Lot C missile. The guidance compartment collapsed from aerodynamic stress 52 seconds into launch, causing missile pitch down followed by Range Safety destruct. The falling object is the second stage, which separated intact and inadvertently began firing. With no attitude control, it tumbled end over end until shutting down from propellant starvation and impacting the ocean several miles downrange.) This was Missile C-4, the ninth Titan I launch and the second Lot C missile. The guidance compartment collapsed from aerodynamic stress 52 seconds into launch, causing missile pitch down followed by Range Safety destruct. The falling object is the second stage, which separated intact and inadvertently began firing. With no attitude control, it tumbled end over end until shutting down from propellant starvation and impacting the ocean several miles downrange.
A U.S. Marine Corps RF-4B Phantom on ground roll, towing its open drag chute after landing. Another RF-4B Phantom takes off. An F-8E Crusader lands. Another F-8E lands and rolls out to end of runway. An A-6A Intruder on long ground roll after landing. Two F-8E Crusaders take off in succession. (Vietnam War period).
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