Formation and Early Airborne Forces

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Instruction sketches for parachute training pamphlet, showing X-Type Parachute

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Course students are shown the parachute packing process, Ringway.

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Possibly the first training fatality from a parachute failing to open (centre left).

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An acrobatic exit from a Whitley aircraft during a training jump.

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Winston Churchill's motorcade passes lines of soldiers on his visit to Ringway, April 1941.

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Recruits emplaning prior to a training jump at Ringway. Note number two is carrying his parachute container.

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