From the history of the creation of missile weapons (1936-1952)

Hitler A. reviews the parade of stormtroopers in Nuremberg in 1936. Stormtroopers in formation with banners.

Nazi banners at the parade.

The face of Hitler giving a speech.

Hitler at the proving ground during a meeting with the military on the creation of the V-1 rocket.

Hitler listens to the explanations of one of the engineers.

Hitler gives instructions to the military.

A sign of the American headquarters for the creation of rocket technology.

A meeting of American rocket designers and the military.

The face of one of the American generals.

Continuation of the meeting, faces of the designers and the military.

A meeting of American rocket designers, one of the engineers demonstrating a model of the rocket.

View of the Peenemünde rocket range (top).

Map showing the location of the range.

Employees of the design bureau at their drawing boards.

Design engineers Wernher von Braun and Lusser R. discuss the construction of the V-2 rocket with the military.

View of part of the missile silo.

Unsuccessful launch and fall of the V-2 rocket in 1942, explosion of the fallen rocket.

Explosion of the rocket at the launch site.

Launch of the V-2 rocket in early 1944, the rocket rushes into the sky.

Launches of V-2 rockets from the Peenemünde range.

Inspection of the wreckage of the fallen rocket.

Signalmen of the German Air Force at the field switchboard.

Von Braun at the tent talking on the field telephone.

German pilots discuss the flight route before taking off on a combat mission.

View of part of Red Square during the parade in 1952. Spectators from the guest stands welcome the missile equipment passing through Red Square.

Timoshenko S.K., Bulganin N.A., Stalin I.V., Malenkov G.M., Beria L.P. on the mausoleum tribune.

Missile forces units on Red Square (top).

American military and engineers inspect a V-2 rocket with American markings.

Von Braun near the rocket body.

Preparing an American rocket for launch in the early 1950s, view of a V-7 rocket.

Von Braun among American military and engineers.

Rocket launch.

Panorama of the Earth from space.

Weighing a dog.

Preparing a launch pad at an American test site.

A Soviet sentry on the railroad tracks in Peenemünde.

View of one of the missile silos in Peenemünde after it was captured by Soviet troops.

American soldiers inspect the equipment.

An American transport plane flies.

Paratroopers in the plane before the jump.

View of part of the territory (top).

American paratroopers leaving the plane.

American soldiers in Germany talk to local residents, check documents.

An American soldier escorts captured German specialists.

A truck on a mountain road.

Wernher von Braun and other German rocket designers among American technical intelligence employees, von Braun's face.

Von Braun talks to American military personnel during a meeting.

Employees of the design bureau in Peenemünde at work.

Wernher von Braun and Lusser R. discuss with the military issues of building the V-2 rocket.

View of one of the rocket silos in Peenemünde.

Unsuccessful launches of V-2 rockets.

The V-2 rocket takes off.

The V-2 in flight.

Wernher von Braun and other German rocket designers among American technical intelligence employees, von Braun's face.

Braun tells American engineers about ways to improve V-2 rockets, demonstrates a model of the rocket.

Assembling a launch vehicle for an American satellite.