• Reel, Grapnel, Rocket, Wadsworth Mount
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    Reel, steel, with eight upright equi-distant series of rods, sliced pie-piece fashion, each series with seven rods and each rod, silver-gray color, with threads on bottom for screwing into reel, each rod 6 inches long. This is an extra reel for the Wadsworth Mount grapnel line-throwing rocket, tested 1944-1945 and using standard U.S. Navy and other ordnance rockets.

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Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum

Date Created

01/19/2022

Source

Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum

Keywords

Rockets; Space; World War II

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