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| Keywords: About to step into thin air, a paratrooper of the 187th Regimental Combat Team pauses momentarily while the man below... - NARA - 542244.tif Scope and content About to step into thin air a paratrooper of the 187th Regimental Combat Team pauses momentarily while the man below clears the area This is a practice parachute jump in which 1 000 troopers fully armed for combat were first transported in the U S Far East Air Forces C-54 Skymasters to a rendezvous point transferred into C-46 Commandos and flown to the present drop zone 315th Air Division Combat Cargo transports have carried the 187th troopers on two actual combat assignments during the course of the Korean War General notes 542244 Local identifier 342-AF-81649AC Department of Defense Department of the Air Force 09/26/1947 - Still Picture Records Section Special Media Archives Services Division NWCS-S National Archives at College Park 8601 Adelphi Road College Park MD 20740-6001 ca 09/1951 Record group Record Group 342 Records of U S Air Force Commands Activities and Organizations 1900 - 2003 Record group ARC 654 Black and White Photographs of U S Air Force and Predecessors' Activities Facilities and Personnel Domestic and Foreign compiled 1930 - 1975 documenting the period 1863 - 1975 Series ARC 542185 File unit File unit ARC Variant control numbers Agency-Assigned Identifier NASM 4A 37924<br /> NAIL Control Number NWDNS-342-AF-81649AC yes Other versions NARA-cooperation PD-USGov 1951 in Korea United States Army in the Korean War 187th Infantry Regiment United States Curtiss C-46 Commando Paratroopers | ||||