First Nike-Hercules missile service in Taiwan. Exteriors of Nike missile assembly building in Northern Taiwan. CWO (Chief Warrant Officer) James F. Wheeler of 61st Artillery, 2nd Missile Battalion, D Battery, checks the Nike missile for proper assembly. Nike assembly officer 1st Lieutenant Lee Kuei Cheng of 1st Missile Battalion, B Battery, and Sergeant Gordon A. Cotner, Division B of MAAG advisory team, are seen. Two Chinese mechanics remove rear plate of Nike. Nike missile shipping container. Sergeant Cotner and CWO Wheeler discusses reassembled portion of missile. Chinese officer takes inventory as parts are being uncrated and hands them to Chinese mechanics. Sergeant Cotner watches as Chinese officer inspects Nike container.
German Wasserfall anti-aircraft missile, a surface to air missile being test fired in Germany during World War 2. Wasserfall missile on the launch pad. Missile lifts off as it emits thick smoke trail. Missile in flight as it emits smoke. Wasserfall missile explodes in mid air as a puff of smoke rises. (Note: Location is Greiswalder Oie. The launch rail of an Enzian antiaircraft missile, can be seen just to the right.)
German Wasserfall missile, a surface to air missile being test fired in Germany during World War 2. Wasserfall anti-aircraft rocket (Wasserfall Ferngelenkte Flakrakete) on a launch pad near a hangar. Missile lifts off emitting a thick smoke trail. Missile in flight. Missile descends leaving behind a vapor trail. (Note: Location is the island "Greifswalder Oie" - seen the test stand from the north looking south from the small west coast access road.)
German Wasserfall missile, a surface to air missile being test fired in Peenemunde, Germany during World War 2. Wasserfall missile is launched from its pad. Missile lifts off emitting a thick smoke trail. Missile in flight.
German Wasserfall missile, a surface to air missile being test fired in Germany during World War 2. Wasserfall missile lifts somewhat unsteadily from pad. Missile heads skyward emitting flame and smoke. A high-speed timer is shown in the foreground. (Note: Location is Greifswalder Oie - just south of the central test stand - looking north)
German Chancellor Adolf Hitler at Berghof in Berchtesgaden, Germany during World War 2. Adolf Hitler talks to officials. Hitler seated with German Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop. He talks to Ribbentrop. Hitler talks to Head of the SS, Heinrich Himmler and Private Secretary to Deputy Fuhrer, Martin Bormann, with Ribbentrop.
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