parachute

Canadian flyer Gérard Labrie with American B-24 bomber "80 Days" during WWII. Note his heavy clothing and parachute. In the background, the fuselage skid (tail-bumper) is lowered and is bracing up the tail on top of a small stand.

The coaling station at Campha Port, French Indochina, is left burning after bombing raid by B-25s. 22nd Bombardment Squadron.

Dropping parachuted incendiaries at Chiang Mai, Thailand, air base. 22nd Bombardment Squadron.

B-25s drop parachuted mines in Irrawaddy River during WWII. 22nd Bombardment Squadron, in Burma.

Photographer Edward Harold Dixon, parachute over shoulder, standing before a C-47 at a base in China, during WWII. Edward Harold Dixon did photographic training while in service and was posted to China. After the war, on February 12, 1949, Harold Dixon and his wife to be, Katie Sue Emens where married in the home of the minister of a Church...

A flyer parachutes to the ground in the CBI (most likely SW China) and men rush to meet him. During WWII.

Combat photographers train for aerial work in the US before deployment overseas during WWII, on a AT-11. Note the clean new parachutes strapped to the nervous photographers. Aircraft serial #127339.

"Mission time." American flyers prepare themselves for another mission during WWII. Note the parachutes at the ready on the ground.

Packing and checking parachutes--a truly vital and exacting task. At an American base, China, during WWII.

American flyers at Guilin, China, set forth with their gear towards the flight line during WWII. From the collection of Hal Geer.