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ALLIED PARATROOPERS. AMERICAN AND AUSTRALIAN ARTILLERYMEN PARACHUTING TO THE MARKHAM VALLEY. THREE OF THE SCORES OF GIANT TRANSPORT PLANES WHICH WERE USED CAN BE OBSERVED. TO THE LEFT IS THE APPROACHING SMOKE SCREEN LAID DOWN BY FIGHTERS TO OBSCURE THE LANDING FROM THE JAPS.
ALLIED PARACHUTISTS. DROPPING IN THE MARKHAM VALLEY FROM 12 OF THE SCORES OF GIANT TRANSPORT PLANES. IN THE BACKGROUND IS THE SMOKESCREEN LAID BY FIGHTER PLANES TO PROTECT THE PARATROOPERS FROM ENEMY
ALLIED PARATROOPERS INVADE THE MARKHAM VALLEY. ONE OF THE LONG LINE OF GIANT TRANSPORT PLANES WHICH CARRIED AMERICAN PARATROOPS AND AUSTRALIAN AIRBORNE ARTILLERYMEN TO THE MARKHAM VALLEY. THERE THEY T
ALLIED PARATROOPS INVADE THE MARKHAM VALLEY. GENERAL MACARTHUR WATCHES AN AMERICAN PARATROOPER HAVE HIS EQUIPMENT ADJUSTED BEFORE JOINING ONE OF THE GIANT TRANSPORT PLANES WHICH TOOK THE ALLIED PARATR
PARATROOPS LAND AT NADZAB. THREE SMILING AMERICAN PARATROOPERS, CARRYING FULL EQUIPMENT READY TO JOIN ONE OF THE NUMEROUS PLANES WHICH FLEW THEM AND OTHER AMERICAN PARATROOPERS AND AUSTRALIAN AIRBORNE
LINED UP BEHIND THE GIANT TRANSPORT PLANES. WHICH CARRIED THEM TO THE MARKHAM VALLEY AMERICAN PARATROOPS AND AUSTRALIAN AIRBORNE ARTILLYMEN HAVE A FINAL CHECK OVER OF THEIR PARACHUTES AND EQUIPMENT.
PARATROOPS LAND AT NAZAB. AN AUSTRALIAN, GUNNER ANDERSON, ASSISTS GUNNER GRIBBEN, ANOTHER AUSTRALIAN, TO PUT ON HIS PARACHUTE BEFORE THEY AND OTHER AIRBORNE AUSTRALIAN ARTILLERYMEN BOARDED THE TRANSPO
