Audie Murphy Tours US Missiles_ _Broken Bridge_ 1962 US Army; The Big Picture TV-508 [720p]

Features the Corporal, Nike-Ajax, Nike-Hercules, Hawk, Little John, Sergeant, Lacrosse, and Nike-Zeus rockets / missiles. '"Medal of Honor winner Audie Murphy stars in this THE BIG PICTURE release. His two young sons' prying questions about space-age missiles prompt Murphy to make a tour of modern Army installations and revisit some of the places he saw in Europe during World War II. First stop is Germany and Hitler's stadium in Nuremberg. Moving on to Wurzburg, Murphy stops at the Third Division area and inspects the platoon he commanded as a First Lieutenant 15 years before. In Germany, the most decorated soldier of World War II gets a look at the Corporal missile and the Redstone missile. A side trip to Norway gives him an orientation view of the Nike Ajax and Hercules ground-to-air missiles. Returning to the United States, Lt. Gen. Arthur G. Trudeau gives the movie star a grand tour of White Sands Missile Range to watch the Lacrosse, the Little John, and the Hawk in action. A highlight of the White Sands visit is the successful firing of the mighty Sergeant missile. At his residence again, Murphy explains to his children about how the free world is being protected by the Army's arsenal of missiles."' "The Big Picture" episode TV-508 Originally a public domain film from the US National Archives, slightly cropped to remove uneven edges, with the aspect ratio corrected, and one-pass brightness-contrast-color correction & mild video noise reduction applied. The soundtrack was also processed with volume normalization, noise reduction, clipping reduction, and/or equalization (the resulting sound, though not perfect, is far less noisy than the original). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_S... Wikipedia license: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b... White Sands Missile Range (WSMR) is a United States Army rocket range of almost 3,200 sq mi (8,300 km2) in parts of five counties in southern New Mexico. The largest military installation in the United States, WSMR and the 600,000-acre (2,400 km2) McGregor Range Complex at Fort Bliss to the south (southeast Tularosa Basin and on Otero Mesa) are contiguous areas for military testing. White Sands is the site of the first atomic bomb test... National Historic Landmarks Designated historic sites on WSMR land include: - Trinity Site: Selected in November 1944 for the Trinity (nuclear test) detonated on 16 July 1945[10] (National Historic Landmark district on 21 December 1965, NRHP on 15 October 1966). - White Sands V-2 Launching Site: A V-2 static test firing was 15 March 1946, and the 1st US V-2 launch was 16 April 1946 (landmark designation 3 October 1985). Current operations The White Sands Test Center headquartered at the WSMR "Post Area" has branches for Manned Tactical Systems & Electromagnetic Radiation and conducts missile testing and range recovery operations. Other operations on WSMR land include: - The Launch Abort Flight Test Complex for the Orion Project - White Sands Launch Complex 37, built for Nike Hercules tests - White Sands Launch Complex 38, built for Nike Zeus tests with Launch Control Building now used for Patriot missile firings - "WSMR Main Post", which includes several smaller areas such as the housing area, golf course, "Navy Area", and "Technical Area" (a recreational shooting range just inside the "El Paso gate" on the south is outside of the Post Area.) - WSMR Museum tours and exhibits, which include V-2 rocket #FZ04/20919 returned in May 2004 after restoration. - White Sands Hall of Fame, which inducts members such as the 1st range commander (1945 - 1947), Col. Harold Turner, in 1980. - 1972 DoD Centers for Countermeasures (CCM), which evaluate precision guided munitions and other devices in electronic counter- and counter-countermeasures environments. - 1963 NASA White Sands Test Facility's ground station for Tracking and Data Relay Satellites and the SDO ground station with 2 18 m (59 ft) antennas. - The North Oscura Peak facility of the AFRL Directed Energy Directorate Chronology - 1930: Robert Goddard began rocket testing in New Mexico. - 1941-04-13: The US' WWII preparations established the Army Air Base, Alamogordo: 1942 Biggs Army Airfield construction began near El Paso (1947 Biggs AFB, 1973 Biggs AAF)--the region's nearby Deming AAFld (14 Dec 1946), Ft Sumner AAFld (6 Mar), and South Aux Fid #1 (4 Apr) transferred to "Army Div Engrs" in 1946. - 1940s: When the range was formed, ranchers' land was leased and, in the 1970s, taken permanently to expand the area available for testing...