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First launching of a ballistic missile from moving platform: German V-2 rocket fired from USS Midway during Operation Sandy

Sailors along catwalk of USS Midway (CV-41) during Operation Sandy in the Atlantic Ocean. V-2 rocket in firing position, on both port and starboard sides of ship. Superstructure of USS Midway. The rocket had been captured in Germany and re-manufactured at White Sands Missile Range. Rocket in firing position on the flight deck. Rocket ignition and it takes off into the air, tilted almost immediately upon launch. Rocket progress is tracked in the air and is seen as it falls into the ocean at a distance.

Date: 1947, September 6
Duration: 1 min 28 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675035264
Buildings devastated during invasion of Saipan, Mariana Islands.

Buildings devastated during invasion of Saipan, Mariana Islands. A crane operates. Views of devastated buildings on Island. Wrecked Japanese planes at airfield. Entrance of Japanese air raid shelter. Wrecked air strip.

Date: 1944, August 11
Duration: 2 min 46 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675035310
U.S. Army Chief of Staff, General George C. Marshall, arriving at Nanking China, right after end of World War II

A U.S. Army Air Forces C-54 transport follows a jeep to park at airport in Nanking, china, capital of the Nationalist Chinese Kuomintang (KMT) Government of Chiang Kai-shek. Chinese Air Force P-51 aircraft are seen parked on the ramp in background. General George C. Marshall, on Presidential mission to facilitate peace between KMT and Communists, steps from the airplane and is greeted by Chinese Generals Shang Chen; Ho Yin Chin; and U.S. Lieutenant General Wedemeyer and American Ambassador to China, Patrick Hurley. Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek personally escorts General Marshall to a waiting staff car.

Date: 1945, December 21
Duration: 1 min 1 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675035901
Tail section and smoke flares attached to a glide bomb and operators observe its glide towards its target on ground.

A review of remote controlled weapons of the U.S. Army Air Force. A worker replaces cap of a bomb by a tail section. Smoke flares attached with this tail section. Bomb is placed on a cart and dragged towards a B-25 bomber aircraft of the U.S. Army Air Force. Operators work on instruments to observe the glide of the bomb through a lower gun turret well. Bomb dropped traverses towards its target on ground (World War II period).

Date: 1944
Duration: 8 min 37 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675036034
Aircraft of the Allied forces fly in German skies, shortly after close of WWII in Europe

Aircraft of the Allied Air Force fly in German skies, shortly after end of World War II in Europe. Formation by a number of P-47 fighter planes of the Allied Air Forces. Another formation in sky by the P-38 aircraft. A large formation of A-20 bombers.

Date: 1945, June 4
Duration: 2 min 46 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675036101
General Twining congratulates pilots of the 339th Fighter Squadron, on Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands during WWII

Major General Nathan F. Twining, Commanding General, 13th Air Force. arrives to congratulate fighter Pilots of the U.S. Army Air Forces, at Henderson Field, on Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands, during World War 2. (The 339th had successfully accomplished a highest priority mission, shooting down Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto's airplane on April 18, 1943.) Major General Twining, wearing a pith helmet, steps out of his jeep and walks towards a group of 339th Squadron Pilots. He examines the nose wheel of a P-38, as a group of pilots stand around him. General Twining converses for a while with Major John W. Mitchell, Commander, 339th Fighter Squadron, who led the mission to down Admiral Yamamoto's airplane. Later, members of the 339th Squadron are photographed in conversations with one another.

Date: 1944, April 6
Duration: 3 min 7 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675036187