Fi103 (V-1) launching test in Peenemunde, Germany. Closeup view of wingless V-1 mounted on launching ramp, jet engine started. Snow-covered terrain showing launching of the rocket going up track and hitting water in front of launching ramp -- missile bounces across the frozen lake surface (World War II period).
Responding to secret orders, The German Air Force Test Center at Peenemunde-West, tests mechanisms for launching the Fi 103 Fieseler (V-1 ) jet-powered flying bomb ("Buzz Bomb"). Plan calls for test of drive train rail with powder propellant rocket sled catapult having final speed of 100 meters per second. View of barren snow-covered land, test shack. and launch rail. View of test sled. Caption refers to test of Rheinmetal-Borsig catapult. Dummy V-1 missile is launched on an inclined plane. Missile plunges into water with a splash. (World War II period).
Winter, 1943, testing at German Air Force Test Center, Peenemunde-West, Germany. Acceleration test of Argus engine for V-1. Test vehicle with Argus jet engine is readied on launch rail and men stand behind it. Snow is falling. A man stands on snow covered ground and directs. The Argus jet engine ignites and vehicle accelerates, leaving track to crash into ice and snow covered water. Views of the Rheinmetal-Borsig solid propellant rocket sled catapult, for V-1, on a rail.
U.S. Army soldiers stand near German V-1 robot bomb lying on ground in England. A military jeep in the background. Soldiers take out cover of wings and then they dismantle all parts of the flying bomb. Main body of the robot bomb put in a truck. Nose of the V-1 bomb. An American Army official sits on tail of the robot bomb, examines the bomb control mechanisms and manually moves them. A sign in German is seen near that part of the rocket. Inner sections of the bomb are seen. The main body of the robot bomb carried by U.S. military truck mounted crane. A man signals truck. Truck mounted crane puts main body of robot bomb into a waiting aircraft. (World War II period).
King Olav V of Norway pays a state visit to Edinburgh, Scotland. The Norwegian king arrives to Edinburgh by train. Queen Elizabeth II, Prince Phillip, Duke of Edinburgh, and British Prime Minister Harold MacMillan along with other dignitaries, receive King Olav V. A procession in horse drawn carriages and Queen's cavaliers escorts the guest. The Highlander troops guard the roads on both sides. A huge crowd cheer for the king.
Embassies honor British Monarch King George V in Washington D.C. Flags of Nations are dropped to half staff on the official residences of the representatives in America's capital in solemn tribute to the British Monarch King George V following his death. He died at the age of seventy.
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