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Pestell's wings presentation at Ramat David parachute school, Palestine 1947.
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Paratrooper faces camera with barbed wire and civilians in the background. Palestine 1948.
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Paratroopers guard a huge arms cache found in a school basement in Tel Aviv.
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Paratroopers at rest in the Canal Zone.
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Private Palsen holds a horse leg bone to the camera near Cairo.
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Pte Hunt, 3 PARA has a trim – clippers powered from street lamp, Ismailia, 25/1/52.
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Pte Hunt, 3 PARA, somewhere in the desert between Suez and Cairo. 6/2/52.
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Paratrooper section moves forward under fire from tribesmen, Radfan 1964.
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Paratrooper from B Company, 2 PARA at Plaman Mapu camp, Borneo.
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Paratrooper on jungle patrol, Borneo.
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Paratroopers in a Beverley aircraft during operations in Malaya.
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Photo of exercise in Malaya. Sticks of men over shoot drop zone.
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Photo taken from aircraft door on resupply drop in Malaya.
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Paratroopers emplane ready for a drop in the jungle.
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Paratrooper from 2 PARA in Trapeza, Cyprus, October 1956.
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Paratroopers search a farm house in Cyprus, 1956.
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Paratroopers conduct cordon and search in Cyprus, 1956.
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Paratroopers search for arms and ammunition in Cyprus, 1956.
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Paratroopers search under a vehicle in Cyprus, 1956.
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Photo of Russian airborne soldiers who have just exited their aircraft.
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Paratrooper of 501st Parachute Battalion exits plane after inspection.
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Parachutists of the 503rd Parachute Regiment landing on B field, February 1945.
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Pile of captured Argentinian weapons outside settlement of Goose Green.
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Pte 'Kev' Eaton, 6 Platoon 3 PARA with General Purpose Machine Gun (GPMG), Mount Vernon, Falklands, 1982.
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Padre David Cooper supervises casualty evacuated by helicopter.
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Private Hilton, A Company, 2 PARA on reverse slope of Darwin Hill.
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Photo taken from jumping door of Douglas Dakota aircraft. A second plane can be seen through the open door.
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Paratrooper using a glass bottle to crush biscuits to make fishcakes. Others look on.
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Paratrooper using a Vickers Medium Machine Gun.
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Paratrooper takes cover in some long grass while training, North Africa, 1943
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Paratroopers board a Whitley Bomber prior to a training exercise, 1940.
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Paratroopers of A Company, 3 PARA move in to take the airport centre of El Gamil airfield while other men are still descending.
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Paratroopers capture a Russian SU-100 tank in Port Said.
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Paratroopers surround a jeep on El Gamil airfield, November 1956
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Parachute jumping instructors recently arrived from Ringway in tropical helmets that were soon disregarded by all troops.
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Paratroopers descend from Whitley aircraft, possibly Tatton Park, Manchester, 1941-43.
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