Word: 501st
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Parachute Battalion (RKO Radio) is exciting proof that World War II is eminently photogenic. Although the picture's foremost actors, the U.S. Army's 501st Parachute Battalion, are now at peace, their heavenly ballet is a hair-raising dress rehearsal of war's newest...
Shot partly on the 501st's home grounds at Fort Benning, Ga., Parachute Battalion follows the rigorous training of a modern parachutist with documentary nicety. And its shiploads of husky, fully equipped youngsters cascading out of their transports like peas from a pod make first-rate drama...
...separate camp on the reservation at Fort Benning, Ga. the 501st* Parachute Battalion, 29 officers and 414 enlisted soldiers picked for sturdiness, self-reliance and intelligence, was going through jumps from dummy airplanes, exercises in combat tactics, bruising training in tumbling and other roughhouse, good for jumpers...
...spring. Trained to pack and maintain their own 'chutes, Benning's jumpers go over the side armed, like the Germans, with pistol and a bag of grenades. The rest of their fighting equipment, from rifles to light mortars and folding bicycles, is dropped separately. By summer the 501st will probably be split into skeletons for more battalions...