Paratroops in USA

Series

Series Name
Pathe Gazette

Issue

Issue No.
41/85
Date Released
23 Oct 1941
Stories in this Issue:
  1. 1Salvation Army Band’s Jubilee
  2. 2General De Gaulle Honours Free French Navy
  3. 3Paratroops in USA
  4. 4More News Pictures from Iran
  5. 5With the Navy
  6. *Brazil Launches Destroyer
  7. *Women in Training
  8. *New Water Sport
  9. *Aluminium Round-Up
  10. *Mexican Independence Day
  11. *Tom a Time Guns

* Story has local or special distribution

Story

Story No. within this Issue
3 / 5
Summary
127 men bailing out at half second intervals take part in the biggest mass jump ever made in America. They are participating in mock warfare in Louisiana.
Keywords
Military
Locations
Louisiana; Georgia; Fort Benning
Length of story (in feet)
59
Story extras:
Film clip
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Notes
Pathe now also handles the Reuters Historical Collection, which includes the British Paramount, Empire British, Gaumont Graphic and Gaumont British newsreels.
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