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Aviation History
1941
1941 - 1108.PDF
544 MAY 15m 1941. OUR AIR ARMY Photographs of Britain's New Paratroops in Training THE first indication that we had para-chute troops already trained camewith the announcement of their em- ployment three months ago in the south of Italy. Photographs of their training are now released. A close-up of a single drop shows the type of canopy used and the emergence from the underside of the Tiger Whitley shows the '' manhole'' system is favoured by us in preference to the door in the side of the fuselage as used by the Germans. The training commences with jumps from
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