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| Keywords: monochrome Lot-9429-7: U.S. Marines Now They’re Landing From the Air. Familiar to Americans since the founding of the country has been the terse communiqué – “The Marines Have Landed!” But, Marine landings heretofore have been mostly by ship. Today, they’ll land not only by ship but from the air. These pictures, taken at a Marine base on the western U.S. coast, show airborne Marines practicing parachute-jumping from a 250-foot tower. The chutes slide down wires of the tower as fast as chutes from an airplane. Shown: At 15 feet the parachute blossoms out. The trip to the ground will be exactly as a free parachute jump but without the drift. Office of War Information Photograph, 5-8 May 1942. Original photograph is small. (2015/12/18). Lot-9429-7: U.S. Marines Now They’re Landing From the Air. Familiar to Americans since the founding of the country has been the terse communiqué – “The Marines Have Landed!” But, Marine landings heretofore have been mostly by ship. Today, they’ll land not only by ship but from the air. These pictures, taken at a Marine base on the western U.S. coast, show airborne Marines practicing parachute-jumping from a 250-foot tower. The chutes slide down wires of the tower as fast as chutes from an airplane. Shown: At 15 feet the parachute blossoms out. The trip to the ground will be exactly as a free parachute jump but without the drift. Office of War Information Photograph, 5-8 May 1942. Original photograph is small. (2015/12/18). | ||||
