Rockets & Missiles

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  Atlas Missile on Launch Pad

  1960-01-26
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  Lark Missile in Low-Altitude Flight Over Desert Terrain

  circa 1951-1954
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  U.S. Army Personnel with Lark Anti-Aircraft Missile on Transport Launcher, circa early 1950s

  circa 1952-1954
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  Failed JTB-2 Missile Launch Explosion, Wendover Field, Utah

  1946-10-25
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  Lark Anti-Aircraft Missile in Low-Altitude Flight Test

  1951-11-08
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  Army Nike Anti-Aircraft Guided Missile in Supersonic Flight, White Sands Proving Ground

  1953
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  Aerobee Sounding Rocket Launch from White Sands Proving Ground.

  1952-06-23
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  U.S. Navy TARZON guided bomb during loading operation.

  1946-07-15
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  Technicians preparing Hermes rocket for launch on gantry at White Sands Proving Ground

  1953-03-13
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  U.S. Army Corporal E rocket launch, White Sands Proving Ground, New Mexico

  1951-09-19
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  NIKE guided missile firing test sequence showing intercept and destruction of target aircraft

  1953
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  U.S. Army Corporal missile in raised firing position with tactical erector, White Sands Proving Ground, New Mexico

  1954-04-07
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  Corporal surface-to-surface guided missile on its tactical transporter-erector at White Sands Proving Ground

  1954-04-17
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  U.S. Navy Loon (JB-2) missile prepared on inclined launch ramp with crew, Point Mugu, California

  1949-04-22
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  Lark surface-to-air missile on parade trailer with “1st GM Group LARK” sign; soldiers and spectators in street scene

  ca. 1947–1949 (approx.)
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  Technicians fueling and checking a U.S. Navy Lark (SAM-N-2 R-1) surface-to-air missile on launcher platform

  ca. 1951
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  Overhead view of Martin Viking No. 7 rocket on gantry, prepared for record-breaking altitude flight, White Sands Proving Ground

  1954-09-05
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  Boeing GAPA supersonic research missile launches from test stand at Alamogordo, New Mexico

  1953-01-10
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  Lt. O. J. Cooper and William Purdy inspecting the U.S. Navy Martin Viking No. 7 rocket before record altitude flight, White Sands Proving Ground, New Mexico

  1951-09-06
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  JB-2 “Loon” on long catapult ramp with tractor-trailer at a desert test range

  unknown
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  WAC Corporal rocket launch at White Sands Proving Ground

  1949-02-24
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  JB-2 “Loon” missile “Old Faithful” on launcher with ground crew at a desert test range

  ca. 1947
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  Martin B-61 Matador pilotless bomber lifts off from roadable launcher, Air Force Missile Test Center, Cocoa, Florida

  1953-10-12
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  U.S. Navy Loon (JB-2) cruise missile at launch over desert scrub, plume visible

  ca. 1946–1947 (approx.)