General Walter Kruger on his visit to United States 11th Airborne Division reviews troops in Lipa, Philippines. He pins up medals to Major General Joseph Swing and other officers. Paratroopers jump from C-46 aircrafts and float to earth. Two planes two gliders as one of the gliders cuts loose and lands. Soldiers march in a review. (World War II period).
Two planes tow two gliders and lift them off the ground in Lipa in Batangas province of Philippines, during World War 2. U.S. Army General Walter Kruger exits from a plane to visit the United States11th Airborne Division and Major General Joseph Swing greets him. The two officers talk to each other.
Planes and gliders on an airfield in Lipa, Batangas, Philippines. A Waco CG-4 glider in airfield. Cable on glider as it starts for take-off. Glider lands on a field. A C-46 aircraft flies low over the field, picks up a glider and tows it away.
Twenty four students of United States 11th Airborne Division jump school are seen jumping from a C-46 aircraft during paratrooper training, late in World War 2. View from a distant aircraft as the soldiers jump from the aircraft and open their parachutes. Group of paratroopers descending to the ground as they land in fields in Lipa, Philippines.
United States 11th Airborne Division jump school at Lipa strip in Batangas province of Philippines. A parachute instructor addresses the paratrooper students and shows how a parachute opens by pulling it from a soldier's back and drawing it along a table. Student soldiers listen to the instructor.
United States 11th Airborne Division jump school at Lipa strip in Batangas province of Philippines, late in World War 2. Soldiers learn to jump from a tower at the school as part of U.S. Army paratrooper training.