Parachute Collection (page 2)

Fokker C-31A Troopship
United States Army - Fokker C-31A Troopship (F27-400M), of the Golden Knights Parachute Display Team. Date: circa 1997

Fokker C-31A Troopship 85-1608
United States Army - Fokker C-31A Troopship 85-1608 (msn 10668, F27-400M), of the Golden Knights Parachute Display Team, taxiing for take-off. Date: 1997

Beechcraft U-21A Ute 66-18015
United States Army - Beechcraft U-21A Ute 66-18015 (MSN LM.16), of the US Army Golden Knights parachute display team. Date: circa 1990

de Havilland Canada YC-7A Caribou 57-3079 (MSN 5), at the US Army Transportation Museum at Fort Eustis, Virginia, in the markings of the Golden Knights US Army Parachute Team. Date: 1995

Fokker C-31A Troopship 85-1607
United States Army - Fokker C-31A Troopship 85-1607 (msn 10652, F27-400M), of the Golden Knights Parachute Display Team, taxiing for take-off. Date: 1997

Parachute jump from aircraft Date: 1938

Comic postcard, two women see a parachute, WW2 - Theres an air pirate dropping out of his Monologue in a Parasite! Date: circa 1940s

WW2 era - Comic Postcard - Watch your step
The postcard caption reads Watch your step. The little girl is wearing white. Warime privations meant that fine materials for wedding dresses were hard to come by

Membership card for the Caterpillar Club belonging to Flight Officer Edwin Walker, who was a navigator on a Lancaster bomber

Memorial to C-47 Dakota 43-15180, Ochten, Holland
This Dakota, carrying men of 156th Parachute Battalion Machine Gun Platoon, was shot down by German ack ack on 18 September 1944, the second day of Operation Market Garden

508th PIR Memorial, Sions Hof Hotel, Berg en Dal
During Operation Market Garden in September 1944 this area was taken by the 508th Parachute Infantry Regiment of the US 82nd Airborne Division. The figure on the wall is a Memorial to that Division

101st Airborne Division Memorial Parachute, Paulushoeve
This area was in the landing zone of the Screaming Eagles, the 101st US Airborne Division, and was known as DZ C. It was where the 506th PIR were due to land

The Paulushoef, Paulushoeve Farm near Best
The owner of this farm, Wan van Overveld, has erected a metal parachute in the garden and on the house is a Screaming Eagle

Castle Henkenshage, 502nd PIR HQ, Holland
The US 502nd Parachute Infantry Regiment was given the Operation Market Garden task of capturing this position and completed the clearing of the area on 17 September 1944

Joe Mann Memorial, Open-Air Theatre, Best, Holland
This was put up by the people of Best in memory of Private 1st Class Joe E. Mann of H Coy, 502nd US Parachute Infantry Regiment. It was unveiled by his parents on 17 September 1956

Interceptor aircraft pilots waiting to go up 1939
Interceptor aircraft pilots sitting on their parachutes as they wait for the order to fly, a few weeks after the outbreak of war

No. 3 Commando Memorial Plaque, Merville Battery
The taking of the Battery was the task of the 9th Parachute Battalion, and despite a complicated plan that went very wrong from the first jumps at 0020 hours on D-Day

Balloon and parachute pioneers, 18th century
Etienne and Joseph Montgolfiers hot-air balloon 1, and brazier a, Professor Jacques Charless balloon and gondola 2, hydrogen-gas mechanism b, and Jean-Pierre Blanchard with his parachute 3

US 508 Parachute Infantry Regiment Chef du Pont
The Memorial has opposite a Memorial Garden with a Plaque to Our friend, O. B. Hill, founder of the 508th PIR Association

US 507th Parachute Inf Regiment Memorial Amfreville
The figure stands in a Memorial Park unveiled by the Mayor on 23 July 2002. The structure is titled The Beginning and lists the medals

US 82nd Airborne & 90th Inf Div Memorial Gourbesville
The Memorial commemorates the 300 men who died during the liberation of the village. Early on 6 June the 507th Parachute Infantry dropped nearby but the men were very scattered

American 82nd Airborne Division Neuville au Plein
The Memorial Plaque tells of fighting here by Company D, 2nd Battalion, 505 Parachute Regiment and was put up in 2005 by the Quincy Brigade of the C47 Club. It thanks the civilians for their help

American 302nd Parachute Infantry Regiment Memorial
The Memorial is known as the Cabbage Patch. In this area of Carentan Lt Colonel Robert G.Cole led a bayonet charge on 11 June 1944

Enlist with Free French Infantry of the Air (Paratroopers) Date: circa 1943

Douglas C-47A-5-DK Skytrain
(ex Armee de l Air) - Douglas C-47A-5-DK Skytrain 92449 (msn 12251, call-sign FA ) at Le Bourget Airport on display with the Musee de l air et de l espace in July 1982

Thai paratroop trainee jump over Royal Air Force Sembawang
Thai paratroop training by the Royal Air Force at RAF Sembawang in Singapore 11: The paratrooper jumped out from the airplane door to Sembawang airport, Singapore. You can see runway at the downside

Thai paratroop trainee practising rapelling
Thai paratroop training by the Royal Air Force at RAF Sembawang in Singapore 09:The rappelling training down from the tree when the parachute stuck in the tree. It is a training Class

Thai paratroop trainees group photograph before first jump
Thai paratroop training by the Royal Air Force at RAF Sembawang in Singapore 10:My dress with parachute is completed. Take a photo to be a good memory before take off the airplane

Thai paratroop trainee practising a treescape - parachute
Thai paratroop training by the Royal Air Force at RAF Sembawang in Singapore 08:The training of take the chute out from the body while be strapped in a parachute in a tree

Thai paratroop trainee practising control of the parachute
Thai paratroop training by the Royal Air Force at RAF Sembawang in Singapore 07:The practice of controlling the chute while floating in the air. -Signature

Thai paratroopers fitting parachutes
Thai paratroop training by the Royal Air Force at RAF Sembawang in Singapore 01:My dress with parachute is X Type. (Fitting the X- Type parachute) Date: 1955

Baby Scouts -- parachuting with hats
Baby Scouts -- But girl scouts view the aeroplanes with dread; they much prefer to use their hats instead. Date: 1900

Royal Air Force Armstrong Whitworth A. W. 38 Whitley Mk. III
Royal Air Force Armstrong Whitworth A.W.38 Whitley Mk.III. The Tiger engined Mk.III was no longer used operationally by September 1941

Paragliding in the Peak District National Park, Derbyshire
A paraglider takes off from a hill in the Peak District National Park, Derbyshire. First published The Sunday Times Date: 1988

Vickers Virginia Biplane Aircraft flying in formation - ?
Vickers Virginia Biplane Aircraft flying in formation - Empire Air Day Preview at Henlow, UK - Parachute Testing and Dropping with 24 Parachutists

A test rocket used to demonstrate the parachute recover?
A test rocket used to demonstrate the parachute recovery system of the English Electric Thunderbird surface-to-air guided missile. 1957 Farnborough air show. Date: 1957

Rifle, Self-Loading, 7. 92 Mm, Fg42
Fallschirmjagergewehr FG42 7. 92 mm automatic rifle, 1942-1945; with bayonet; no magazine; used by German parachute troops in World War Two, in France and Italy. Date: 1942

Crinoline Parachute
A Crinoline Parachute. Date: 1802

William Newell, using a Calthrop Guardian Angel parachute
On 9 May 1914 William Newell, using a Calthrop Guardian Angel parachute, used the Grahame-White Type 10 Charabanc - also known as the Aerobus - to undertake the first parachute descent in Britain

16th Parachute Brigade training, RAF Abingdon
Soldiers of the 16th Parachute Brigade undergoing training at RAF Abingdon, Oxfordshire. Date: 1962

16th Parachute Brigade training
Two soldiers of the 16th Parachute Brigade undergoing training. Date: 1962

Sky diver practising in a field. Date: circa 1963

Sky diver practising before a show. Date: 1965

WWI - Military observation balloon shot down by German plane
Hot time for a " sausage". A British observation balloon is shot down by enemy planes during the First World War

Paratroopers of 2nd Parachute Regiment near Port Stanley
Photograph showing paratroopers of 2nd Parachute Regiment near Port Stanley following the ceasefire order, 14 Jun 1982. Note the new fibre helmets, with and without camouflage

Parachute drop - 11th Bn The Parachute Regiment
Photograph of parachute drop. From album of 183 photographs with newspaper cutting and ephemera, 11th Bn The Parachute Regiment, 8th Bn Middlesex Regiment, TA, 1947-1957. Date: 1957

The Epic of Arnhem, WW2
The Epic of Arnhem, where the First Airborne Division saw action during the Second World War. Showing how the newcomers at Arnhem were welcomed as they landed by parachute. Date: 1944

Baling out of a stricken aeroplane by G. H. Davis
The gentle art of baling out: escape technique. How airmen dive and drift to safety through space. The use of the parachute during the Second World War: methods of escape from stricken aeroplanes

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