This historic U.S. Air Force newsreel covers several topics, including the rocket sled tests being conducted by Col. John Paul Stapp as part of human factors testing. These deceleration tests provided valuable data for aircraft and automobile safety systems and, according to the book “A History of Murphy’s Law” by author Nick T. Spark, were responsible for the discovery of that famous law. Also on the reel — the story of the Eskimo scouts in Alaska, and the “Darmstadt Case” which shows the U.S. Army’s Criminal Investigation Laboratory in Germany. The “military crime busters” use a wide slate of technologies to conduct their investigations.

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