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.
Drawings of Professor Eugen Sänger's S.R.9 Rocket motor from July 24, 1934. Thrust force graphs for the S.R.8 and S.R.9 obtained during burn tests. The S.R.10 rocket motor designs of August 1934, one with a circular combustion chamber and another with cylindrical chamber. Experiments using a high-pressure oxygen tanks. A technician standing near a high pressure tank, and placing a tank into a larger container. Two men pouring liquid oxygen from a tank. High pressure oxygen cylinder and fueling containers standing outside Sänger's workshop in Vienna. A technician filling a container from high pressure tank.
Battle-weary American soldiers attend an open air chuch service by a barn in Normandy. U.S. gunners commence a concerted artillery barrage before tanks and infantry advance toward Saint Lo, France, in World War 2. Various artillery and tanks are seen, including one M4 Sherman Crab Tank (Mine sweeper). P-47s, flying low altitude close support missions, bomb a critical target, and troops move ahead on the way to Saint Lo. Two German soldiers run to surrender. Saint Lo falls. Scenes of the devastation in the city.
A boxing match at U.S. Army Camp Cleveland, Metz, France, right after end of World War Two. Two Army men box under watchful eye of a referee in the ring. Large crowd of American soldiers watch the boxing match. Boxers being attended in their respective corners. The winner raises his hands.
Lt Virgil P. Lary, former soldier Carl Daub, and Mr. Morris Blowitz during the Malmedy war crime trials in Germany. Lt Virgil Lary tells how he and fifteen of his men made a break after witnessing the massacre of approximately one hundred U.S. soldiers (the Malmedy Massacre). Former soldier Carl Daub questioned about his background. Daub points out location on a map where he and his group were captured. Morris Blowitz questions Daub on how he surrendered and if he saw the German vehicles fire on the Americans.
Prosecutor Thomas Dodd addresses the Nuremberg Trials courtroom regarding a song allegedly published by Baldur Von Schirach for the Hitler Youth in Nuremberg, Germany. Mr Dodd reads from a document and questions Von Schirach about anti-religious, anti-clergy, anti-church songs published for Hitler Youth before and during World War 2. Mr Dodd presents the diary of Minister of Justice to Von Schirach. Dr Fritz Sauter and an unidentified U.S. officer give the diary to Von Schirach after the latter testified. Dr Sauter examines his client Von Schirach.
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