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michaelmaltby said:
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Same fate that took out Lt. Chapman in the movie: "The Bridge on the River Kwai"-- But Bill Holden's character had never jumped (being a USN deck hand- Not Lt. Cmdr Shears-) and he and the rest of the team survived the jump into the jungle. Lots of hazards involved in a parachute drop, and this picture shows in detail one of them. Damn shame, to lose troops in this manner--Hansie
 
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The para isn't dead or injured, he's about to use his reserve canopy, opened and dropped below him, to be able to climb down from the tree, as the one on the right has done, and was standard procedure in such cases.
British paras didn't get reserve parachutes until the early 1950s, and if caught up in a tree, used a toggle rope, attached to their webbing equipment, which was worn during the jump, under the parachute harness.
BTW, tree landings hurt !!
 
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