Parachute Battalion
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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
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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