Two hundred paratroopers sitting in the double-decker-hold of a C-124 cargo plane during training maneuvers.
Location: US
Date taken: May 28, 1951
Photographer: Hank Walker
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He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose
There are no great men, only great challenges that ordinary men are forced by circumstances to meet.
They were a pretty good ride... the Globemaster II. As I recall, the coffeemaker could make enough coffee for everyone aboard in fifteen minutes... and do so in any bank the plane was rated at. The one downside was that the standard canvas sling seat had a bar running directly across the center. The canvas soon stretched so that your butt was on the bar. Your butt would invariably go to sleep in flight.
Bob
"It is said, 'Go not to the elves for counsel for they will say both no and yes.' "
Frodo Baggins to Gildor Inglorion, The Fellowship of the Ring