PROJECT HERMES A-1 ROCKET TESTS at WHITE SANDS PROVING GROUNDS (1951)

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This circa color film served as an interim report on Project Hermes, a guided missile projected started in 1944 in response to Germany's rocket attacks in Europe during World War II. The project engineer holds a model of the A1 missile (mark 00:45 ) as he explains how six of the weapons had already been built and tested in New Mexico and provides information as to its size and weight, as well as at the fact that its warhead was replaced with various test instruments. (The Army Hermes A-1 single…

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15 minutes