Parachute training in the German army early during World War II. A German soldier stands wearing a parachute. An airplane parked on a field. They are taught proper landing techniques by the instructors. Soldiers lying on the ground wearing parachutes. Men packing the parachutes. Other men learn the parachute packing techniques. An airplane in flight. A soldiers jumps and lands with the help of a parachute. Via loudspeaker, the instructor tells him not to wriggle while descending. A German airplane parked on the airfield.
Parachute training in the German army during World War II. An airplane in flight. Newly trained German paratrooper soldiers jump out of the airplane. Close up views of German soldiers as they jump from aircraft. They descend towards the ground. Many parachutes open in the air as paratroopers descen. The parachute troops insignia. A German officer explains a model of an enemy town to the soldiers and a target demolition area. He explains a diagram on the board. They discuss a document.
Parachute training in the German army during World War II. Junkers Ju-52 airplanes parked on an airfield. Soldiers stand near the planes. A soldier salutes an officer. Paratroops board the aircraft. The Ju 52 airplanes take off from the airfield. The planes in flight. They fly in formation overhead. The soldiers jump out of the planes with parachutes. Close up views of them jumping from open door of aircraft, and aerial views of German paratroopers jumping. Aerial view of the soldiers descending. They land and quickly take off their parachute gear. They race to a gear parachute and open it to get rifles.
Paratrooper training in the German army during World War II. Paratrooper soldiers advance on a field. They lie in prone position. A soldier looks through binoculars. Other soldiers come forward and take a prone position with a MG 34 machine gun. One soldier loads a cartridge belt in the MG-34 and the other soldier fires it. Smoke in the foreground due to firing. Soldiers advance on the field amid smoke and explosions. View of machine gun being fired at dusk or near night, as seen from just behind the gunman, almost machine gun operator point of view.
German army paratroop soldiers during World War II. The German soldiers march on a street in formation while singing a song. Buildings in the far background. Trees along a side of the street.
United States airmen wearing Mae Wests (life jackets) walk towards a U.S. Army Air Force C-47 Skytrain aircraft during World War II. Crew members board the aircraft parked on a runway. The airmen get inside the aircraft with equipment. A pilot seated in the cockpit. Two airmen converse with each other. An army jeep in the background. One of them wears an identification bracelet. The pilot pins a memento inside the cockpit and looks out of the window. He speaks to one of the ground crew member.
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