Snow covers launch pad area at German rocket development center in Peenemunde Germany. Engineers, crew, and guards in long winter coats seen near A4 missile (v-2 rocket). A4 missile lift off emitting a fiery flare. A gauge shows a reading. The missile in flight as it emits fire. A 2nd launch is shown of a different rocket (shown already in mid ascent). Gauge in lower right of image measures rocket progress. (World War II period).
A German ballistic missile A-4 being launched during tests in Peenemunde, Germany during World War II. An A-4 missile at a launch pad. The missile lifts off emitting a fiery flare. It is in flight as it emits a fiery flare. The missile begins to descend through the air as it emits a vapor trail.
A German ballistic missile A-4 being launched during tests in Peenemunde, Germany during World War II. An A-4 missile at a launch pad. Billows of smoke rise up. The missile lifts off emitting a fiery flare.
A German ballistic missile A-4 being launched during tests in Peenemunde, Germany during World War II. An A-4 missile at a launch pad. Billows of smoke rise up. The missile lifts off emitting a fiery flare. It descends leaving behind a vapor trail.
A German ballistic missile A-4 being launched during tests in Peenemunde, Germany during World War II. Billows of smoke rise up. A A-4 missile lifts off emitting a fiery flare. The missile lifts off with a smoke cloud on the ground.
The return of "Carlson's Raiders," to Pearl Harbor following their successful Makin Raid in World War 2. View from a high point overlooking a wharf at Pearl Harbor, as the USS Nautilus (SS-168) approaches. The wharf is crowded with a military honor guard, a reception committee of high ranking naval officers, and other well-wishers. (Unrelated sequence inserted, of a surfaced submarine, as it fires its deck gun and smoke arises in the sea from a burning ship in the distance.) Scene shifts back to Pearl Harbor, again. This time it shows the USS Argonaut (SS-166) docked, and Admiral Chester Nimitz boarding the submarine and shaking hands with Lieutenant Commander John R. Pierce, USN, its Commanding Officer. Major James Roosevelt, USMCR, (President Roosevelt's son) who is Executive Officer of the Second Raider Battalion (Carlson's Raiders) salutes Nimitz, who then shakes hands with him. Scene shifts again, to deck of the USS Nautilus, where Admiral Nimitz, holding Japanese war trophies from the Makin Raid, discusses them with a young officer from the Second Raider Battalion. View of arms and equipment of the Marines on the submarine deck. Sailors transport a wounded Marine on a litter. Marine Raiders begin to leave the submarine and walk past a military honor guard with rifles at parade rest.
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