United States 11th Airborne Division soldiers advance across grassy fields and roads in Aparri, Philippines. Some of them move in a jeep. Paratroopers set up machine guns. (World War 2.)
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.
United States 11th Airborne Division jump school at Lipa strip in Batangas province of Philippines. Soldiers line up to simulate a jump from a mock door set up during paratrooper training, late in World War 2.
Soldier students of United States 11th Airborne Division jump school board a C-46 Commando aircraft at Lipa strip in Batangas province of Philippines. Paratroopers receiving training are seen inside the aircraft and then jumping from the aircraft in flight. View from aircraft of paratroopers jumping and opening their parachutes. (Late in World War 2.)
Lieutenant General Charles H. Gardner, Major General Joseph M. Swing and General Pearson inspect a glider and a C-46 plane at Lipa airstrip in Philippines.
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