A German V-2 rocket is launched and tested at the White Sands Proving Ground, New Mexico. Preparations for firing shows a couple of workers standing on a platform near the base of the V-2 missile. They make the final preparations. A view from inside a control block house shows V-2 in the firing position. Workmen on ladders work on the warhead section of the V-2.
A German V-2 rocket is launched and tested at the White Sands Proving Ground, New Mexico. The V-2 is raised into firing position from top of a special elevating trailer or carryall machinery. The warhead of the V-2 rocket. Final firing preparations shows workers standing on a platform at the base of the rocket.
A German V-2 rocket at the White Sands Proving Ground, New Mexico. Men stand at the base of the V-2 rocket. The rocket is held in firing position by movable parts of a trailer used to carry the V-2 to the launching site. Men work on final preparations of the V-2. Equipment is lowered.
Dyna-Soar full scale mockup at Martin Plant, Denver. A pilot walks from the base of a Dyna-Soar full scale mockup Titan booster to the Dyna-Soar airplane. The mockup in a horizontal position. Fin modification on the Dyna-Soar first stage Titan booster mockup. View of Dyna-Soar booster mock up second stage.
U.S. troops fight Japanese Army in New Guinea. The troops advance from Kokoda through New Guinea jungles towards Japanese bases of Buna and Gona. A U.S. light field gun fired on Japanese positions. Japanese planes from Rabaul score direct bomb hit on a U.S. supply craft which blows up. New Guinea natives bring in wounded U.S. soldiers. A U.S. cruiser sinks two Japanese destroyers. Japanese prisoners on the deck of the cruiser. (World War II period).
Various United States fighter and bomber aircraft at an airfield in Belgium. [Slate states airfield # 78, which would be Florennes/Juzaine Airfield, Belgium. But it may actually be Le Culot Airfield (A-89) where P-47s of the 36th and 373rd Fighter Groups were based.] A large number of P-47 Thunderbolt fighter planes parked on a flight line. A B-17G Flying Fortress bomber parked in background. P-47s with bubble canopies taxi in single file from the flight line along a curved taxi strip.
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