Keywords: vehicle monochrome Lot-9434-18: “Flying Troops Trains” For A Speedier War. Original caption, “To step up the war pace, America is finding more and more uses for the fastest means of transportation – the airplane. Not only is she hauling troops by air, but heavy equipment, such as anti-tank guns, scout cars, and motorcycles, as well. Here is an airborne infantry unit in training. They’re using “mock-ups,” replicas of the transport planes they’ll use when their training is complete. Shown: Carrying full battle equipment, cyclists of the airborne infantry unit file into a plane on hurry-up take-off orders. Office of War Information Photograph, April 22-28, 1942. (2016/01/08). Lot-9434-18: “Flying Troops Trains” For A Speedier War. Original caption, “To step up the war pace, America is finding more and more uses for the fastest means of transportation – the airplane. Not only is she hauling troops by air, but heavy equipment, such as anti-tank guns, scout cars, and motorcycles, as well. Here is an airborne infantry unit in training. They’re using “mock-ups,” replicas of the transport planes they’ll use when their training is complete. Shown: Carrying full battle equipment, cyclists of the airborne infantry unit file into a plane on hurry-up take-off orders. Office of War Information Photograph, April 22-28, 1942. (2016/01/08). |