Earnest C. Watson with a five-inch high-velosity aircraft rocket
1944
- Title
- Earnest C. Watson with a five-inch high-velosity aircraft rocket
- Collection
- Caltech Photographs
- Series
- Photographs of Administration, Campus Celebrations, and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory
- Dates
- 1944
- Extents
- 1 photographs (negative)
- Abstract
- Celebration of the one-millionth rocket manufactured in a plant on the outskirts of Pasadena. Nicknamed Holy Moses, the rocket first went into combat use in July 1944. Earnest Watson was administrative head of Caltech’s World War II rocket project. Caltech and World War II.