11TH AIRBORNE JUMP SCHOOL LIPA STRIP, BATANGAS, LUZON, PHILIPPINE ISLANDS Part 1

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Signal Corps ADC 4629 111 SOURCE: AFCF (A- 308) ADC FILM: ARCH & APC MP 765' ea Silent 4629 11TH AIRBORNE JUMP SCHOOL Lipa Strip, Batangas Luzon, Philippine Islands 19 May 45 MLSs to CU, parachute class instructor addressing students, demonstrates how chutes open by pulling one from man's back and drawing it along table. CUs, students watching instructor. LSs, CU, students jumping from tower. LSs, CU, hooking up lines in simulating jump from mock-door setup. LSs, CUs, paratroopers boarding C-46 transport. Ints, men lined up, sitting down, and jumping from door of plane. MSs, CU, Lt Gen Charles H Gairdner, Maj Gen Joseph M Swing, and Gen Pearson leaving plane. CUs, Gens inspect glider and C-46. Record Group 111 CUs, glider is towed on take-off by C-46. Accession III-NAV-210 CU, glider landing and officers alighting. AVs, twenty-four men jumping from C-46 and landing on field below. ARMY PICTORIAL CENTER 35-11 35th Ave. , LIC 1, NY ERBS/es

Collection

Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer

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Moving Images Relating to Military Activities