English subtitles for clip: File:1946-05-13 1st Pictures Nazi Rocket Bomb in US.ogg

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Nazi Germany's prized secret, the deadly V-2 rocket bomb, is assembled

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by US engineers for testing. Rivaling the atom bomb in importance,

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the 46 feet of death and destruction is set in place by an ingenious

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elevating boom at White Sands Proving Ground near Las Cruces, New Mexico.

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Parts to make a hundred V-2's were brought from Germany

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and Proving Ground officers are carrying on experiments involving

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war and peace uses. In this test, the war head is replaced by

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scientific instruments and a concrete blockhouse with walls ten feet thick

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and a roof 27 feet thick houses the control personnel and the firing mechanism.

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The monster is in place and here she goes as shown by the slow-motion camera!

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Climbing 75 miles above the jagged peaks of the Organ mountains,

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the great guided missile is directed and the results recorded by radio, radar,

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photographic and visual equipment.

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Sixty seconds after leaving the ground, the rocket can attain a top speed of

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3,000 miles per hour. In this case, the flight was controlled as viewed

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through a tracking device. But the future use of rocket power knows no limits!