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== [[Category:Unidentified Aircraft]] [[:Category:Unidentified Aircraft|Unidentified Aircraft]] == 
== Curtiss NBS-4 ==
Elias NBS-3 or Curtiss NBS-4; both, just tested but not ordered by USAAC, were biplanes with box-like biplane tails and are of similar shape.
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== [[:Category: North American O-47| North American O-47]] ==
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== [[Category:Unidentified Aircraft]] [[:Category:Unidentified Aircraft|Unidentified Aircraft]] ==
== [[:Category: Curtiss A-18 Shrike|Curtiss A-18 Shrike]] ==
What kind of twin engined monoplane would spray a smoke curtain for ground troops in the USA of 1940 ?
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And what is this horizontal stabilizer at the foreground ?
 
== [[:Category: Martin B-10|Martin B-10 (or variant B-12)]] ==
The horizontal stabilizer in the foreground.
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== See also ==
== See also ==
* [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0034000/ Parachute Battalion at IMDb]
* [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0034000/ Parachute Battalion at IMDb]
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parachute_Battalion Parachute Battalion at Wikipedia]
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parachute_Battalion Parachute Battalion at Wikipedia]


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Latest revision as of 15:30, 29 November 2023

Parachute Battalion movie poster.

Movie (1941)

Starring:
Robert Preston (Donald Morse)
Nancy Kelly (Kit Richards)
Edmond O'Brien (Bill Burke)
Harry Carey (Bill Richards)

Three young men enlist in the US Army and are sent to Fort Benning, for training as parachute infantry. Of course, their military istruction will be mixed with a love affair.

Unidentified Aircraft

Probably North American T-6s.

Curtiss NBS-4

Martin NBS-1

Perhaps the same aircraft. Archive footage used as instructional material to trace the experiment of 1930 about mass parachuting.

Standard J-1

Curtiss JN-4 Jenny

Douglas B-18A Digby I

Douglas C-33

85 10TG on the tail.

Ground instructional airframe (tailless).

North American O-47

Curtiss A-18 Shrike

Martin B-10 (or variant B-12)

The horizontal stabilizer in the foreground.

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