Master Sergeant and Officers Demonstrating full Parachute Gear at TPS, Fort Benning, Georgia, 1944
Gift of Morton Steinberg
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Photograph. A Master Sergeant is configured carrying demolitions gear. He is wearing a T-5 parachute with an A-3 reserve parachute, a folding stock carbine is secured to his chest behind the reserve chute. The two pouches on each leg are demolition bags, carrying 1/2 lb charges of TNT. On the left of the image a paratrooper officer wearing a jump jacket and trousers is holding a single 1/2 lb TNT charge. On the right a US Army Air Forces Officer in a dress uniform is holding a single 1/2 lb charge of TNT. The photo serial number on the front is "169049." TPS Fort Benning, Georgia. After June 1944
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1944-07-
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Items from the service of Captain Morton H. Bernstein. Bernstein worked in the Army Air Forces, Material Command, Eastern Procurement District in New York. His primary task was to source and acquire material, primarily silk, for parachutes that were used by USAAF air crews and US Army paratroopers. This collection consists of sixty-six photographs of a site visit to Fort Benning, Georgia, showing paratrooper training, jumps, and civilian professionals inspecting parachute material.
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Fort Benning
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32.350
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-84.967
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials:
Soldiers--American--United States
Paratroopers--American--United States
Parachutes--American--United States
Rifles--American--United States
Officers--American--United States
Explosives--American--United States