The Hydrobomb, 1945 [photograph].

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The Hydrobomb, 1945 [photograph].

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Full size model of United Shoe Mach. Hydrobomb #30A, 19 June 1945. [Description from photo index.]. During World War II the US Army Air Force (AAF) Material Command Armament Laboratory at Wright Field developed an underwater rocket-propelled projectile to be launched from aircraft flying at high speed. It was called a hydrobomb, to contrast it from Navy torpedoes which were propeller-driven. GALCIT Project #1 (the forerunner-organization to JPL) built the facility shown above, which was referred to as the Channel. It included a 500 foot long hydrodynamic tank, a rocket-driven towing carriage, and test instruments to measure hydrodynamic forces on half-scale test models of the hydrobomb. This June 1945 photograph shows the rocket carriage raised to its service position, with the Channel extending behind it.

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One of the first people hired at GALCIT Project #1 in November 1941 was photographer George Emmerson (1913-1994), an emigrant from Newcastle, Great Britain. Audrey Voice and Mary J. Taylor as photographer's assistants joined Emmerson in 1943. Emmerson took almost all the early photos that became a part of this collection, a collection described in brief as the work product of the JPL Photolab. As JPL grew, so did the assignments to the Photolab to photograph all Laborato...