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Inspection of V-2 rocket at White Sands.

Technicians make preparations for launch inspect the various parts of rocket at White Sands, New Mexico. A crane is wielded on tracks to facilitate fueling and checking of missile. Fuel is loaded into tanks of rocket. Final checks are made before its launch. 1947.

Date: 1947
Duration: 2 min 57 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675023662
Launch of V-2 rocket at White Sands.

Launch of V-2 rocket at White Sands,New Mexico. Weather and wind velocity checks are made, radar devices are adjusted. In the Block house crew members begin the countdown for the rocket launch and launch it into space. They keep a check on the course of rocket through radar. Crew maps the point of impact and moves to the site. Collect the wreckage of missile to the launching station for analysis. Scene of conference held to discuss the performance of missile. 1947.

Date: 1947
Duration: 7 min 22 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675023663
Technicians prepare German V2-Rocket for launch at White Sands Proving Ground in New Mexico.

Scenes of personnel and technicians working on German V2-Rockets. Army personnel walking about. Rocket on the launch pad (launch tower). Men fuse rocket. Final checks are made before launching.

Date: 1946
Duration: 3 min 30 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675029069
Various radar equipment in operation and heavy power lines leading to the White Sands Proving Ground Radar Tracking Station.

A radar tracking station at a German V-2 rocket test site in the White Sands Proving Ground, New Mexico. The large radar tracking station shows radar equipment in operation. Heavy power lines lead to the station.

Date: 1946, August 7
Duration: 1 min 2 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675047473
The White Sands Proving Ground Radar Tracking Station shows various radar equipment in operation.

A radar tracking station at a German V-2 rocket test site at the White Sands Proving Ground, New Mexico. Various radar equipment in operation including SCR-270 (Signal Corps Radio model 270 radar).

Date: 1946, August 7
Duration: 1 min 21 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675047474
Men work with assembling of plutonium core nuclear device gadget prior to the Trinity nuclear test in New Mexico.

Activities the day before the Trinity nuclear test conducted at White Sands Missile Range (USAAF Almogordo bombing and gunnery range) in the Jornado del Muerto desert of New Mexico, during World War II. This is for the the first atomic bomb test; and first ever detonation of a nuclear weapon in history. View of the White Sands Missile Range,the testing site for Trinity nuclear test. Mountains seen in the background. Men aboard a truck loaded with the plutonium core nuclear device nicknamed "Gadget". Men attach the gadget to hook of a crane. Crane hoists the gadget from truck and place it on ground. Men assemble the gadget.

Date: 1945, July 15
Duration: 2 min 40 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675072460