No 1 PTS RAF Ringway

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Drag training teaches trainee parachutists to realease themselves from being dragged by parachute on the ground.
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Drag training teaches trainee parachutists to release themselves from being dragged by parachute on the ground.

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Recruit pulling in a parachute container after dropping. Note he is wearing the new parachute helmet.
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Recruit pulling in a parachute container after dropping, Ringway.

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Parachute training using a barrage balloon at Ringway. This method of training was still used into the 1990s.
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Parachute training using a barrage balloon at Ringway. This method of training was still used into the 1990s.

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Shot of a parachute training descent with container immediately on exiting the aircraft over Tatton Park.
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Shot of a parachute training descent with container immediately on exiting the aircraft over Tatton Park.

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A Parachute course stick photographed during the early parachute training days with their harnesses and headwear on.
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A Parachute course stick photographed during the early parachute training days with their harnesses and headwear on.

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Instruction sketches for parachute training pamphlet.
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Instruction sketches for parachute training pamphlet, showing X-Type Parachute

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Shot of a parachute training hangar filled with swing harnesses and other equipment.
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Shot of a parachute training hangar filled with swing harnesses and other equipment.

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Course students are demonstrated the parachute packing process.
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Course students are shown the parachute packing process, Ringway.

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Possibly the first training fatality from parachute failing to open (centre left).
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Possibly the first training fatality from a parachute failing to open (centre left).

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An acrobatic exit from a Whitley aircraft during a training jump.
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An acrobatic exit from a Whitley aircraft during a training jump.

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Winston Churchill's motorcade passes lines of soldiers on his visit to Ringway, April 1941.
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Winston Churchill's motorcade passes lines of soldiers on his visit to Ringway, April 1941.

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Recruits emplaning prior to a training jump at Ringway. Note number two is carrying his parachute container.
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Recruits emplaning prior to a training jump at Ringway. Note number two is carrying his parachute container.

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Early paratroopers in training.
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Early paratroopers wearing the locally manufactured rubber "Flash Gordon" helmet, c1940.

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Early paratrooper adopts correct jumping position on exiting the aircraft over Tatton Park.
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Early paratrooper adopts correct jumping position on exiting the aircraft over Tatton Park.

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Paratrooper has just exited the aircraft. He holds a container and is attached to the plane by his release strop.
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Paratrooper has just exited the aircraft. He holds a container and is attached to the plane by his release strop.

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Paratroopers training in a Douglas Dakota aircraft. The strop is attached to the floor of the aircraft.
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Paratroopers training in a Douglas Dakota aircraft. The strop is attached to the floor of the aircraft.

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Paratrooper looks out a Douglas Dakota aircraft window for briefed landmarks on approaching the drop zone.
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Paratrooper looks out a Douglas Dakota aircraft window for briefed landmarks on approaching the drop zone.

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The first of a parachute stick waits for the green light before jumping from the aircraft.
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The first of a parachute stick waits for the green light before jumping from the aircraft.

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WW2 RAF Parachute Jump Instructor (Until November 1945)
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RAF Parachute Jump Instructors' Insignia (Until November 1945)

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RAF Parachute Jump Instructors' Insignia (From November 1945)

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Men of the 1st Parachute Battalion parading in ‘stick’ order next to a Whitley at R.A.F. Ringway. Late 1941/early 1942.

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OS Recruits emplaning wearing 'Flash Gordon' helmets
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Recruits emplaning wearing 'Flash Gordon' helmets

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AA Bill Aldridge looks through a canopy
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Bill Aldridge looks through a canopy

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AA Billeting Instructions c1943 RAF PTS Ringway
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Billeting Instructions c1943 RAF PTS Ringway

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AA Billy Baker Newspaper Cutting
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Billy Baker Newspaper Cutting

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AA Crazy Week at the Ringway Palladium by Fenwick
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Crazy Week at the Ringway Palladium by Fenwick

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AA 'Glider Crash Gives up Secret of our Paratroops'
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'Glider Crash Gives up Secret of our Paratroops'

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AA Deployment of the 'X' Type Parachute Aperture Exit
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Deployment of the 'X' Type Parachute Aperture Exit

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AA Open Day RAF Ringway 1945 parachute demonstration
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Open Day RAF Ringway 1945 parachute demonstration

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AA 'Parachute Caught in Plane, Trapped' newspaper article
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'Parachute Caught in Plane, Trapped' newspaper article

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AA The Parachute Memorial Correspondence letter to The Pegasus Journal
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The Parachute Memorial Correspondence letter to The Pegasus Journal

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AA Unveiling of the Parachute Memorial booklet 1963
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Unveiling of the Parachute Memorial booklet 1963

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AA Officers of The Nationalist Chinese Forces at Ringway
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Officers of The Nationalist Chinese Forces at Ringway

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OS Parachute Regiment Monument at manchester Airport
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Parachute Regiment Monument at manchester Airport

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General Sir John Dill inspects a parachute with 11 SAS at Tatton Park December 1940

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Parachute Jump Instructor conducting training at Ringway, 1941

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Taken by the Chicago Tribune May 22nd1941 probably RAF Ringway
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Photograph taken for the Chicago Tribune, probably RAF Ringway, 22 May 1941

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Jim Lund under instruction at Ringway, 1943

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2nd Lt Harper, centre back, after his eighth parachute jump at Ringway, 1944

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Men from a parachute course in 1945 pose for the camera with their girlfriend's names written on their hats.

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Sgt Stratton (centre) with para trainees(?)
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Sgt Stratton (centre) with a section of trainees from Course 161, RAF Ringway April 1945

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Group photo of a section on course B172 RAF Ringway, July 1945

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