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German Paras in Training: Slow Motion Parachute Opening (Silent film)

German Paras in Training: Mass Training Jump (Silent film)

German Paras in Training: Retrieving Ground Containers (Silent film)

Russian Airborne 1920s: Mass Parachute Descent (Silent film)

Article from the Bournemouth Echo, 29 August 1984.

Russian Airborne 1920s: Experimental low level drop of men in vehicle without a parachute (Silent film)

Silent film of training for Suez and Jordan: Training Exercise in Scotland

Silent film of training for Suez and Jordan: Mountain Training

Silent film of training for Suez and Jordan: Mountain Training (2)

Silent film of training for Suez and Jordan: Invergordon and troops boarding

Silent film of training for Suez and Jordan: Troops loading aboard RN destroyer

Silent film of training for Suez and Jordan: Emplaning for Para Drop and Beverley aircraft taking off

Operation Market September 1944, Aircraft on the airfields of England and troops waiting to emplane

Operation Market September 1944, Aircraft towing gliders take off

Operation Market September 1944, Aircraft in flight crosses the English and Dutch coast

Article about L/Cpl Brittain, from the Bournemouth Echo, 29 August 1984.

Operation Market September 1944, Gliders land on crowded landing sites at Arnhem.

Operation Market September 1944, Mass parachute descent viewed from air

Operation Market September 1944, Crash landing gliders

Deutsche Wochenschau Arnheim (German footage): British Paratroopers descend under fire

Deutsche Wochenschau Arnheim (German footage): Germans attack glider landing site taking POW's

Deutsche Wochenschau Arnheim (German footage): German advance on Arnhem

Footage of early Russian parachute technique (with English narrator)

German Parachute training drop

Early parachute training with footage of Churchill's visit

Citation for the award of a Military Medal to Ebenezer Cochran, 1 May 1943.

Early Gliders at Ringway (Civilian Sail-planes)

Early Balloon Jumps

Airborne Forces in North Africa 1942 (packing containers and fitting parachutes)

Paratroopers in North Africa 1942 (infantry, mortars, firing and rounding up German POWs

Montgomery addresses 1st Parachute Brigade prior to Sicily

Gliders at Pegasus Bridge (June 1944)

6th Airborne Division in Normandy (resupply and other scenes).

Arnhem September 1944, Preparations, Emplaning and Drop

2nd Parachute Brigade, street fights in Athens, Greece 1944

Training Jump from a Dakota aircraft

Operational Award Announcement Letter from the Colonel Commandant, 26 February 2015.

Training Para drop from twin-door Hastings

Operation Varsity, The Rhine Crossing: Briefing and synthetic training

Operation Varsity, The Rhine Crossing: Preparations and Glider training

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