United States paratroopers undergo training at Fort Benning, Georgia. The soldiers take early training jumps with parachutes using special towers. The paratroopers descend on the ground with their parachutes.
United States 501st Parachute Battalion in Fort Benning, Georgia. Airplanes on the air base. Paratroopers march. They board the planes. The airplanes in formation. Paratroopers jump from the planes in flight. They open their parachutes. They land.
Shows U.S. Army parachutists training on scaffold at Fort Benning in Georgia. Parachutists practice hanging and landing techniques while the high rank officers watch them. Parachutists boarding aircraft C-47. Aircraft taking off and practice jumps. Parachutists jumping, one after the other.
Shows 501st Parachute Battalion, boarding C-47 aircraft and jumping at Fort Benning in Georgia during World War II. Views of German parachutists descending on Norway from Junkers 52 aircraft. Aircraft C-47s taking off and dropping heavy equipment parachutists as Curtiss A-12S lay smoke trails below. Troops advancing through smoke in fields.
U.S. Army speeds up parachute troop training program at Fort Benning in Georgia during World War II. Paratroopers are drawn to the top of the jump tower. Paratroopers balancing themselves after jump while the parachutes are opened. Views of parachute troops jumping from tower.
Shows four soldiers from U.S. 4th Engineers division ferry a Bantam Car or 'The jeep' across river stream..Driver carefully reverses jeep onto a tarpaulin sheet. Soldiers wrap up jeep and tie it up. Waterproofed Jeep is successfully ferried across river by troops. July 1941. (World War II period).
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