U.S. INFANTRYMEN BEING TRAINED AS PARACHUTISTS.— The United States is now training certain infantrymen as parachutists to establish later a “Parachutists Corps.” The soldiers, now learning all the tricks of how to jump and land safely, are to form the nucleus of a drive by the U.S. army to adopt the European method of transporting troops by parachutes. The training is under the supervision of Major-general George A. Lynch, Chief of Infantry, in Washington. The parachutist is released from a suspension ring attached to a steel arm during practice jumps
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Evening Star, Issue 23687, 21 September 1940, Page 6
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90U.S. INFANTRYMEN BEING TRAINED AS PARACHUTISTS.— The United States is now training certain infantrymen as parachutists to establish later a “Parachutists Corps.” The soldiers, now learning all the tricks of how to jump and land safely, are to form the nucleus of a drive by the U.S. army to adopt the European method of transporting troops by parachutes. The training is under the supervision of Major-general George A. Lynch, Chief of Infantry, in Washington. The parachutist is released from a suspension ring attached to a steel arm during practice jumps Evening Star, Issue 23687, 21 September 1940, Page 6
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