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13 photos tagged paratrooper, from 4 members of Flickr Commons.

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Vliegtuigen en parachutisten boven Kreta

from Nationaal Archief

• 54 older comments, and then…
• Leenke said:

  ** translation of describtion ** Second World War. Airplanes and parachutes flying above Crete. Greece, Crete, 1941

• spotless oven said:

  German paratroopers jumping from JU 52 cargoplanes

• Phanatic said:

  Most of whom ended up casualties. This attack so devastated the German paratroop units that they were never again employed in mass jumps.

• Dietmar Heinz said:

  Zweiter Weltkrieg. Flugzeuge und Fallschirme über Kreta. Griechenland, Kreta, 1941.

• oximois said:

  Seconde Guerre mondiale. Avions et parachutistes allemands au-dessus de la Crète. Grèce, Crète, 1941.

Marine parachuting at Parris Island, S.C. (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

• Shay Thomason said:

  Beautiful image. -- Found in a search. (?)

• hobvias sudoneighm said:

  This image has been used in the indicommons.org post: Just Plane Trouble
  
  

• zJMac said:

  Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Parachutes a.k.a. Jumping out of a perfectly good airplane for fun, and we'd love to have this added to the group! -- Found in a search. (?)

• Balliolman said:

  Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Paratroopers, and we'd love to have this added to the group!

Irving home on furlough; Paratrooper in 82nd Airborne.

from JWA Commons

• Balliolman said:

  Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Paratroopers, and we'd love to have this added to the group!

• pennylrichardsca (now at ipernity) said:

  SS Index gives an Irving Sadernsky (1918-2000) and a Nathan Sadernsky (1923-1984), both from Connecticut. An Irene Sadernsky Figarsky was in the class of 1945 at Norwich Free Academy in Connecticut, and served on the school's Jubilee Committee in 2005.

• stiongstiong said:

  great