Please visit the Airborne Museum in Fayetteville (FayetteNam) NC if you want an even more thorough idea of past and present paratroopers my mom went to it and had no idea what paratroopers were and didn't really understand what a paratrooper did and she was worried for me after visiting the museum.
The riggings look so primitive compared to today’s. It’s a wonder the soldiers trusted them, but I guess it’s all relative to the era. That Gettysburg Museum just keeps looking better and better. His knowledge of history and his artifacts are amazing.
Yes, very cool, thank you for this video, interesting! This child clothing! Many french making that after War! There was nothing😞 This brooch is "La croix de Lorraine " from General De Gaulle, yes, la France Libre!👍 message d'une française et merci à l'Airborne!!!!
The dress looks like the one my Mom had for her christening back in 46. Our family is from Normandy and Brittany before migrating to Quebec, then on to Michigan. She grew up in Detroit and dad in central Michigan. Wish I could send a picture. You'd be surprised.
Great stuff. I was in the United States Army for thirty years. I retired in 2011. I was in the Ranger Regiment 12 years on and off. But was always with a Airborne unit almost my whole career. I'm disabled now. But can still shoot well. Just not prone. I am planning on going to Gettysburg next spring my wife passed September 2018 so a friend will drive. I cannot because of my disabilities. I will definitely come and see your collection. You have some really nice stuff.
Hello - I'm sorry for your troubles...my condolences for the loss of your spouse...many, many thanks for your service, you must have a lot of tales to tell...I hope you enjoy your visit...God bless...
This really hits home for me. (2/502 🖤101AB veteran) and of course I’m a huge WW2 enthusiast. But, how did they manage to find an undeployed chute? The reserve sure I mean those were commonly discarded but I mean, seeing as they all needed one to jump and the static line deployed them. Maybe a supply drop, but then again why would they need chutes on the ground lol. Anyways, just curious but otherwise really cool finds
Wowwww your channel really blew upp, I feel like just 2 months ago you have like only 22k subscribers I think or something like that and now your up to 220k that’s amazingggg, your wife and family must be soooo proud hehe
My father was born in the US and his mother took him back to the old country of the former Macedonia (northern Greece) after his father died. The year was 1936. The Italians and then the Germans came. In 1944, the Germans pulled out and right on their heels were American Paratroopers. My dad got to befriend a paratrooper from the same home town of Canton, OH. Pops was still a teen and he was very poor, wearing rags for clothes. The Americans didn't stay long, and pulled out very early in the morning. When my dad got up in the morning he intended on heading to where the Americans were camped. When he opened the front door and walked out he nearly tripped over a box left on the porch. That American Trooper left Pops a pair of Trooper boots, pants, and a jacket! Pops never could find that Paratrooper, post war, when he came back to the US...
The soldier in the photo was my father. He is gone now, and he told me that the photo was taken two days before the D Day jump. It was to be used after the Day Day jump as public success of the major per my father the photo was taken on the ground in England two days prior to the D Day jump.
Sorry my computer jammed continuing with the above, my father was shot coming down taken prisoner and eventually escaped and with fought with resistance fighters until the end of the war.
10:06 reading your description about the 50/50. I really think that all troops used camouflaged main parachutes. I have seen so many photos, videos and eyewitness. It’s 100% all camouflaged during Market Garden and it wouldn’t make sense if it wasn’t for D-Day. Hope you will do a indept video about this topic.
The “bang box” or “dial of death” was the standard quick release for many years with the T-10 parachute used by the US until replaced by the T-11. Interesting that the “dial of death” was replaced with the T-10B and MC1-1B. The release was similar to the WWII release used on the T-5. These harnesses were actually a lot more comfortable than the “dial of death” equipped harnesses and we aptly. called them “comfort harnesses”. The other thing missing from these T-5 harnesses were the two Capewell canopy releases which allowed the jumper to release the canopy from the harness. This came in handy when landing and being dragged by the wind. Releasing one of the Capewells allowed quick collapse of the chute
You would love are museum in Ohio with Airborne Artifacts we have independent companies, 11th,101,82,17 airborne and we have other artifacts from Revolutionary war to War on Terror
The Dutch also made all kinds of clothes out of parachutes after Market Garden. Wedding dresses were of course particularly popular to make just after the liberation. But many dresses for children were also made out of the coloured parachutes used for the various supply drops. Each supply item had its own colour parachute. I recently saw a beautiful yellow dress in a small museum made out of parachute fabric.
I have a short jacket made from white parachute. It was made for my husbands great Aunt, who would be greatly pregnant at her sister's wedding. Her sister's wedding dress was made out of parachute also. His great Uncle, who was an Army (I think) seamstress made them. You should come to the Grand Rapids MI area. Lots of history, including the Gerald Ford presidential museum JD!!
Those items are just priceless to any military museum or collector, of uniforms or anything knowing it’s an original? These are amazing items you’ve shown us here J. D. Camouflage at night time drop? Ain’t no camouflage in you dangling in the air with gun bullets shooting hot lead at you!😬
@@TheHistoryUnderground that’s another reason for me to be thankful this week…more of your videos! Happy Thanksgiving JD! God bless your family! Thanks for all you do!
A little off subject and definitely gross, but my grandfather, who didn't talk about the war much told me that in the Pacific you could hear the dead japanese soldiers bodies pop from the extreme heat on those islands. I mean no disrespect, it's just that has always stuck in my mind since the day he first explained that to me. Followed by war is hell.
Great items and museum for sure. There was a 6th parachute trained group during ww2 for the US. It was the first special service force fssf. It was 3 regiments of us and Canadians highly trained soldiers. The were para trained and ski trained. The fought in Italy and Southern France. My uncle Lt Col Robert S Moore was the 2nd regimental commander. They never jumped in combat but were para trained. Their history is highly referred. I have alot of my uncles uniforms and items.
Altho the germans used airborne troops The americans improved the parachute enabling weapons to be carried on the person and not in containers which had proved Disastrous at crete Also reserve chute was employed!
It's funny so similar to the parachutes I used in 90s early 2000s, we had T10s and the parachutes made 60 years ago plus mirror today's parachutes with the D rings, chest straps, rizors, seat and leg straps. Also the reserve is very similar and changed in the early 2000s with a spring loaded reserve that at the time was dangerous didn't deploy because springs would bend thus pulling the handle didn't deploy the reserve so we were taught how to manually pull out the reserve to deploy and it was a dangerous period for paratroopers in late 90s early 2000s until they fixed the reserve parachute problem
The problem with the reserve chute was that if you had a Mae West or inversion with your main, the main would “steal” enough air from the slip stream that the reserve would have little to no air to inflate it. The spring was designed to project the reserve chute out further from the jumper where it would “catch” some air. We were taught not to depend upon this but to pull the reserve handle and then grab the canopy and throw it out into the slip stream so it would inflate. The other issue if you did not do this is the reserve canopy had a tendency to get entangled with the main. Often times with a Mae West, pulling the reserve took enough tension off the main, that the Mae West would relieve itself and the jumper would come in under two inflated canopies.
@@TheHistoryUnderground starting January, we will have events posted on our FB page. WWII and Vietnam vehicles and fireing pack howitzers. Keep an eye out. If you come this way, we will hook you up.
Granddad was one of the first British Paratroopers 1940 made the first Combat Jump with No2 Commando/II SAS February 1941 Tragino Italy Operation Colossus
Watching this on D-day. Seems appropriate to watch on such an occasion. Don't think I could say much more than what has already been said here. Kudos to all my fellow veterans here! 👏
I knew an old British para called Don who lived in Paignton 15 years ago. He was a working class man but one of nature's true gentlemen - soft spoken, dressed impeccably, always tipped. He was one of the first 100 British paratroop volunteers, but never dropped operationally. This was because in 1940 the RAF wanted to know if it was practicable to parachute into the sea with the Mae West life jacket already inflated. Don was the volunteer selected to test this. The impact drove the Mae West upwards with great force, damaged his neck seriously and knocked him unconscious. He was too badly injured to jump again, but his experience may have saved a lot of aircrew lives.
FYI I know a lady, still alive, living in South Point , Ohio that certified parachute packing for what you’re showing in this video. If you’re interested, I could put you in contact with her.
Another bit of American Airborne history is in Robbinsville Township, New Jersey, not terribly far from Gettysburg. In 1940, the original Airborne test platoon traveled to NJ to train at the 'Safe Parachute Jumps Company.' They had constructed two 150' towers, one of which permitted the controlled descent of a parachutist under canopy, and the other was a free descent tower. The Amy, and later Marine parachutists would use the towers for about two years. Later, the Army would built 250' towers at Ft Benning, Ga on which untold thousands of troops would become Airborne qualified.
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Great job I didn’t knew you can made dress out of the reserve parachute from world war 2 I can’t wait when the episode of Pearl Harbor come on your TH-cam I guess I had to wait for it until December 7 ,2021 it will mark 80 years in the way happy thanksgiving
This museum curator is definitely a leg. The thing he calls a swing is called a saddle. It ain't the 502 it is called the 50 second. And that bang box caused more deaths of paratroopers and was quickly done away with it was notoriously called the dial of death
The picture shown at the beginning of your presentation shows how they cut their hair into a mohawk and painted themselves before heading to France as part of the Normandy invasion force. However, only 3 of those warriors of that particular group, who's pictures have been seen around the world, survived the invasion. It's so very, very sad.
Have you ever visited Upottery in England? I live nearby and the phone box that the Americans used is still there along with a memorial in a sentry box not far from the airfield.
Came of a barn in Normandy only becomes suspicious when you're already shopping in an antique store and a mysterious stranger shows up with the exact thing that you want.
My dad was a machine Gunner on a airplane during world War two. Any Germans out there if you had a bad experience during world War two being shot at that could have been my daddy lol.
I am sure there are many a Parachute Rigger ( including myself) that could meet with you guys to go over the exact terminology and nomenclature of the parachute system used.
That’s so sad the paratroop causing so many to die in DDay because the soldier couldn’t get out, they should’ve tested it out more or have a practice run.
I was a British Para in 1956. We were told we were the first to get reserve parachutes and that is we ever went into action we would not have one as you dropped so low you did not have time to open it. I wonder how many reserve parachutes were ever used?
BUMP! This is amazing still, thanks JD and a HUGE thanks also to Eric. Getting this stuff back is beyond epic. Thanks JD & E !! 🙏💪💯
Glad you enjoyed it
This is so awesome 👏 my great grandfather was in the 82nd airborne and jumped into Normandy, super cool!
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I need to go to this museum. This is my next objective in life. Thanks for the awesome videos!
Wow that Eric has some of the coolest stuff. 101st is the greatest division in the WORLD 🇺🇸
100%
Please visit the Airborne Museum in Fayetteville (FayetteNam) NC if you want an even more thorough idea of past and present paratroopers my mom went to it and had no idea what paratroopers were and didn't really understand what a paratrooper did and she was worried for me after visiting the museum.
On my list!
The riggings look so primitive compared to today’s. It’s a wonder the soldiers trusted them, but I guess it’s all relative to the era. That Gettysburg Museum just keeps looking better and better. His knowledge of history and his artifacts are amazing.
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First Strike 🖤
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Yes, very cool, thank you for this video, interesting! This child clothing! Many french making that after War! There was nothing😞 This brooch is "La croix de Lorraine " from General De Gaulle, yes, la France Libre!👍 message d'une française et merci à l'Airborne!!!!
🙏🏼
As a former 82nd paratrooper…THANK YOU!!!!
I love this stuff and Erik’s museum is amazing!
I go there every time I’m in Gettysburg.
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My wife's grandfather was part of the 101st Air borne screaming eagles
Nice! 🇺🇸
Never hit a notification button as quick as I do when I get a new video notification from your channel! Excellent work!
Same!!!!!
I like how you operate 👊🏻
The dress looks like the one my Mom had for her christening back in 46.
Our family is from Normandy and Brittany before migrating to Quebec, then on to Michigan.
She grew up in Detroit and dad in central Michigan.
Wish I could send a picture. You'd be surprised.
Interesting. My email is listed on the About tab on the main TH-cam page.
Great stuff. I was in the United States Army for thirty years. I retired in 2011. I was in the Ranger Regiment 12 years on and off. But was always with a Airborne unit almost my whole career. I'm disabled now. But can still shoot well. Just not prone. I am planning on going to Gettysburg next spring my wife passed September 2018 so a friend will drive. I cannot because of my disabilities. I will definitely come and see your collection. You have some really nice stuff.
Hello - I'm sorry for your troubles...my condolences for the loss of your spouse...many, many thanks for your service, you must have a lot of tales to tell...I hope you enjoy your visit...God bless...
That's amazing! Thank you for your service. Condolences on the loss of your wife. God bless you!
Thank you and God Bless you.🇺🇸
You will really enjoy it. Thank you for sharing that 🙏🏼
Thank you for your service, sir!
Did someone say paratrooper?!?! FURY FROM THE SKY!!!
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What a find from Normandy, keeping history alive through these artifacts!
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This really hits home for me. (2/502 🖤101AB veteran) and of course I’m a huge WW2 enthusiast. But, how did they manage to find an undeployed chute? The reserve sure I mean those were commonly discarded but I mean, seeing as they all needed one to jump and the static line deployed them. Maybe a supply drop, but then again why would they need chutes on the ground lol. Anyways, just curious but otherwise really cool finds
It may have been recovered from a paratrooper that died in one of the planes that crashed.
Wowwww your channel really blew upp, I feel like just 2 months ago you have like only 22k subscribers I think or something like that and now your up to 220k that’s amazingggg, your wife and family must be soooo proud hehe
Thanks! Yeah, it’s been pretty crazy. It’s encouraging to see people getting into history and sharing the videos with others.
Can't wait to see this in person. Until then, keep bringing the good stuff 👍
It’s something else. And I haven’t even scratched the surface.
I never knew anything about 101st para equipment until I watched this . Wow, it was brilliant well worth a look. Cheers, Matt. U K
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To start the day with a history lesson is just sooooo coooool! Thank you for all of your research and effort to make this vlog. Kudos!!!!!!
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Fascinating, everyone was in survival mode and am sure all that material was a God Send for the people. Good show!
Thanks! Definitely helps to understand a bit more about the paratroopers.
Spot on 👌
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101 first Air Borne
SCREAMING EAGLES
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Do you think the Germans ever captured some American parachutes and inspected them??
That would be interesting to know.
My father was born in the US and his mother took him back to the old country of the former Macedonia (northern Greece) after his father died. The year was 1936. The Italians and then the Germans came. In 1944, the Germans pulled out and right on their heels were American Paratroopers. My dad got to befriend a paratrooper from the same home town of Canton, OH. Pops was still a teen and he was very poor, wearing rags for clothes. The Americans didn't stay long, and pulled out very early in the morning. When my dad got up in the morning he intended on heading to where the Americans were camped. When he opened the front door and walked out he nearly tripped over a box left on the porch. That American Trooper left Pops a pair of Trooper boots, pants, and a jacket! Pops never could find that Paratrooper, post war, when he came back to the US...
I am always amazed of the artifacts that are at this museum. The rarity and quality are incredible!!! Thanks for sharing.
It really is something else.
Outstanding knowledge.This Veterans thanks you!!
Great info! My late uncle was a Toccoa man Fox Co. 506th 101st. Thx!!
As a former 82nd abn paratrooper...i love hearing the history of those paratrooper who came before me.. 5/73 3bct
Great way to start my morning!
Awesome! Thanks 🙏🏼
The soldier in the photo was my father. He is gone now, and he told me that the photo was taken two days before the D Day jump. It was to be used after the Day Day jump as public success of the major
per my father the photo was taken on the ground in England two days prior to the D Day jump.
Sorry my computer jammed continuing with the above, my father was shot coming down taken prisoner and eventually escaped and with fought with resistance fighters until the end of the war.
Oh my gosh! That is incredible! Thank you for sharing that. Wow!
10:06 reading your description about the 50/50. I really think that all troops used camouflaged main parachutes. I have seen so many photos, videos and eyewitness. It’s 100% all camouflaged during Market Garden and it wouldn’t make sense if it wasn’t for D-Day. Hope you will do a indept video about this topic.
Also, great video. You make great content!
The belly band goes through the reserve parachute and the snap hooks attaches to the D rings on the harness with the main chute attached.
Heading to Gettysburg next weekend hopefully I can find this museum and the transportation museum you featured as well
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Outstanding material JD. Always history to learn.
Thanks!
The “bang box” quick release was originally developed by the British and used in Normandy. I bet the shop in Ste-Marie-du-Mont was Boutique Holdy.
The “bang box” or “dial of death” was the standard quick release for many years with the T-10 parachute used by the US until replaced by the T-11. Interesting that the “dial of death” was replaced with the T-10B and MC1-1B. The release was similar to the WWII release used on the T-5. These harnesses were actually a lot more comfortable than the “dial of death” equipped harnesses and we aptly. called them “comfort harnesses”. The other thing missing from these T-5 harnesses were the two Capewell canopy releases which allowed the jumper to release the canopy from the harness. This came in handy when landing and being dragged by the wind. Releasing one of the Capewells allowed quick collapse of the chute
You would love are museum in Ohio with Airborne Artifacts we have independent companies, 11th,101,82,17 airborne and we have other artifacts from Revolutionary war to War on Terror
Nice 👍🏻
The Dutch also made all kinds of clothes out of parachutes after Market Garden. Wedding dresses were of course particularly popular to make just after the liberation. But many dresses for children were also made out of the coloured parachutes used for the various supply drops. Each supply item had its own colour parachute. I recently saw a beautiful yellow dress in a small museum made out of parachute fabric.
Love seeing those pieces that were repurposed.
I have a short jacket made from white parachute. It was made for my husbands great Aunt, who would be greatly pregnant at her sister's wedding. Her sister's wedding dress was made out of parachute also. His great Uncle, who was an Army (I think) seamstress made them.
You should come to the Grand Rapids MI area. Lots of history, including the Gerald Ford presidential museum JD!!
Interesting! Definitely want to get up that way at some point.
Imagine if, during training in 1943, your jump master says ok boys, on D-day keep your rigs cause in 75 years they be worth a s*#t pile of money.
Ha! I’ve though about that.
He jumped into the icy blast, his static line unhooked.
AND HE AIN'T GONNA JUMP NO MORE!
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RIP Jay Bowman KIA Normandy France 101st Airborne. 18 years old .
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Those items are just priceless to any military museum or collector, of uniforms or anything knowing it’s an original? These are amazing items you’ve shown us here J. D. Camouflage at night time drop? Ain’t no camouflage in you dangling in the air with gun bullets shooting hot lead at you!😬
Ha! Glad that you enjoyed it.
Wow! This is so great! To see the same kind of equipment my great grandfather used….super cool! I cannot wait to show this to my sons!!!
Nice! Got a good follow up next week too.
@@TheHistoryUnderground that’s another reason for me to be thankful this week…more of your videos! Happy Thanksgiving JD! God bless your family! Thanks for all you do!
Many drowned on d.day due to
Difficulty of discarding parachute
No quick release then!
Yes. It's too bad that didn't have the bang box from the start.
A little off subject and definitely gross, but my grandfather, who didn't talk about the war much told me that in the Pacific you could hear the dead japanese soldiers bodies pop from the extreme heat on those islands. I mean no disrespect, it's just that has always stuck in my mind since the day he first explained that to me. Followed by war is hell.
Dang. I’ve heard some pretty awful stories from the guys who served over there. Can’t imagine.
Not only the French had parachute clothing. My Dutch mother had a blouse made of a reserve chute given to her sometime in ‘44 - ‘45…
Wow! That would be cool to see.
Great items and museum for sure. There was a 6th parachute trained group during ww2 for the US. It was the first special service force fssf. It was 3 regiments of us and Canadians highly trained soldiers. The were para trained and ski trained. The fought in Italy and Southern France. My uncle Lt Col Robert S Moore was the 2nd regimental commander. They never jumped in combat but were para trained. Their history is highly referred. I have alot of my uncles uniforms and items.
Altho the germans used airborne troops
The americans improved the parachute enabling weapons to be carried on the person and not in containers which had proved
Disastrous at crete
Also reserve chute was employed!
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Thank god Eric preserves these pieces of history instead of a private collector so everyone can have a chance to experience them.
Absolutely. He’s doing a good work there.
How much did the guy pay?! Don't leave us hanging (no pun intended).
Ha! Like I said, I didn’t ask. None of business.
My uncle told me about troopers that put extra 45 mags in there pants pockets when the chutes opened the mags ripped out of there pockets
Dang!
Wow, what a cool piece! It cost, none of ur biz🤣
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Bang Box is really called the "dial o death" LOL
Ha! Never heard that one.
@@TheHistoryUnderground I wore this harness in jump school. One wrong move and your were out of your harness in an instant.
Thank you!
Our pleasure! Thanks for watching 🙂
Fascinating.
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Look at the quality we used to put in the things that were made in the US , it’s crazy thank you for this 💯🇺🇸🇺🇸
It's funny so similar to the parachutes I used in 90s early 2000s, we had T10s and the parachutes made 60 years ago plus mirror today's parachutes with the D rings, chest straps, rizors, seat and leg straps. Also the reserve is very similar and changed in the early 2000s with a spring loaded reserve that at the time was dangerous didn't deploy because springs would bend thus pulling the handle didn't deploy the reserve so we were taught how to manually pull out the reserve to deploy and it was a dangerous period for paratroopers in late 90s early 2000s until they fixed the reserve parachute problem
Wow!
The problem with the reserve chute was that if you had a Mae West or inversion with your main, the main would “steal” enough air from the slip stream that the reserve would have little to no air to inflate it. The spring was designed to project the reserve chute out further from the jumper where it would “catch” some air. We were taught not to depend upon this but to pull the reserve handle and then grab the canopy and throw it out into the slip stream so it would inflate. The other issue if you did not do this is the reserve canopy had a tendency to get entangled with the main. Often times with a Mae West, pulling the reserve took enough tension off the main, that the Mae West would relieve itself and the jumper would come in under two inflated canopies.
I wish his museum was larger so the items he has could be displayed better.
Working on it 🙂
There’s a place on the website where people can donate to the GMOH nonprofit foundation to help with an expansion.
Did you do a vlog on Saite-Mere-Eglise?
Not on this trip. I visited there in a video from my last trip though. Got some cool stuff from St. Marie du Mont coming.
You make it to Boise, I'll give you a tour of the Idaho Military Museum. We can hit up the State Pen, and go to the first nuclear plant.
Nice! Can’t say that I’ve ever been to Boise.
@@TheHistoryUnderground starting January, we will have events posted on our FB page. WWII and Vietnam vehicles and fireing pack howitzers. Keep an eye out. If you come this way, we will hook you up.
That museum is amazing for the artifacts they have. Great video.
Very much so. Thanks!
Granddad was one of the first British Paratroopers 1940 made the first Combat Jump with No2 Commando/II SAS February 1941 Tragino Italy Operation Colossus
Watching this on D-day. Seems appropriate to watch on such an occasion. Don't think I could say much more than what has already been said here. Kudos to all my fellow veterans here! 👏
I knew an old British para called Don who lived in Paignton 15 years ago. He was a working class man but one of nature's true gentlemen - soft spoken, dressed impeccably, always tipped. He was one of the first 100 British paratroop volunteers, but never dropped operationally. This was because in 1940 the RAF wanted to know if it was practicable to parachute into the sea with the Mae West life jacket already inflated. Don was the volunteer selected to test this. The impact drove the Mae West upwards with great force, damaged his neck seriously and knocked him unconscious. He was too badly injured to jump again, but his experience may have saved a lot of aircrew lives.
Can't wait to see the museum. I will go one day
It’s something else.
Thumbs down may well of been a the other side !
😅🤷🏻♂️
FYI
I know a lady, still alive, living in South Point , Ohio that certified parachute packing for what you’re showing in this video. If you’re interested, I could put you in contact with her.
Another bit of American Airborne history is in Robbinsville Township, New Jersey, not terribly far from Gettysburg. In 1940, the original Airborne test platoon traveled to NJ to train at the 'Safe Parachute Jumps Company.' They had constructed two 150' towers, one of which permitted the controlled descent of a parachutist under canopy, and the other was a free descent tower. The Amy, and later Marine parachutists would use the towers for about two years. Later, the Army would built 250' towers at Ft Benning, Ga on which untold thousands of troops would become Airborne qualified.
At the Airborne museum in Fayetteville, NC, just outside of FT. Bragg, there's a fantastic example of a full reserve chute wedding dress. It's amazing
Point of history. CO’s were the first us of parachutes before WWII started. They were Smoke
Jumpers of US Forest Service.
Dude u guys should be on the history channel thank you both for keeping history alive god bless the both of ya
Ha! Thanks.
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Very interesting. Good job.
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Great job I didn’t knew you can made dress out of the reserve parachute from world war 2 I can’t wait when the episode of Pearl Harbor come on your TH-cam I guess I had to wait for it until December 7 ,2021 it will mark 80 years in the way happy thanksgiving
RIP Jay Bowman KIA Normandy France 101st Airborne. 18 years old .
Another outstanding video.
Thanks!!!
Very interesting indeed! Thanks.
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This museum curator is definitely a leg. The thing he calls a swing is called a saddle. It ain't the 502 it is called the 50 second. And that bang box caused more deaths of paratroopers and was quickly done away with it was notoriously called the dial of death
The picture shown at the beginning of your presentation shows how they cut their hair into a mohawk and painted themselves before heading to France as part of the Normandy invasion force. However, only 3 of those warriors of that particular group, who's pictures have been seen around the world, survived the invasion. It's so very, very sad.
Very neat. Jump out of a perfectly good airplane into a hot LZ to be surrounded by the enemy. God bless these guys. AATW.
On the TH-cam channel Memoirs of WWII a women mentions her wedding dress was made from her husband’s parachute
Have you ever visited Upottery in England? I live nearby and the phone box that the Americans used is still there along with a memorial in a sentry box not far from the airfield.
If I ever come to America, im coming to this museum. Loving all your videos especially ones from WW2.
Great video. I bet that was Michele's place in Normandy. :)
Came of a barn in Normandy only becomes suspicious when you're already shopping in an antique store and a mysterious stranger shows up with the exact thing that you want.
This is such a cool video my friend. I hope you and your family have a wonderful Thanksgiving.
My dad was a machine Gunner on a airplane during world War two. Any Germans out there if you had a bad experience during world War two being shot at that could have been my daddy lol.
I am sure there are many a Parachute Rigger ( including myself) that could meet with you guys to go over the exact terminology and nomenclature of the parachute system used.
Wow that curator really like the sound of his own voice doesn't he. Talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk
Amazing video! You always deliver the best!
Not everyone who wanted to be a Paratrooper became one. They were America's first modern elite soldiers.
Great video, thanks for sharing and Happy Thanksgiving!
That’s so sad the paratroop causing so many to die in DDay because the soldier couldn’t get out, they should’ve tested it out more or have a practice run.
How are you doing? Hope you enjoy this clip. LY
I was a British Para in 1956. We were told we were the first to get reserve parachutes and that is we ever went into action we would not have one as you dropped so low you did not have time to open it. I wonder how many reserve parachutes were ever used?
Very cool. Love the partnership with GMH!
Fun fact: I was manufactured on August 19, 1988 🥴
The British invented the quick release harness. They used them on D-Day.
His gloves magically change from white to blue