UNUSED UNISSUED WW2 BRITISH AIRBORNE D DAY DUMMY PARATROOPER - YouTube
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Something you don't see every day.
The real "Rupert."
Bob
We have several in our museum collection as you would expect being Parachute Regiment, however, each has its own tale. A clever idea for WW2 and one that did have limited effect at night especially as they cracked on contact with the ground.
That's not so unusual, so do some of us...Quote:
Originally Posted by Gil Boyd
Did these pack a fireworks display as the dummy in " The Longest Day " did , or was that also just " Hollywood Fairy Tale " ?
By the way , just a little off subject , but in the above movie they spliced in the scene off actual planes taking off for the drop . Under the nose of the plane was a box with two spinning disks . I thought it was some special radio / radar device to help them drop the men in the right place at night . Well , those turned out to be Paratrooper's Handcarts full of supplies . The middle man in the stick pulled a handle inside the plane releasing the carts ( which had their own chutes ) just before he went out himself . Hopefully the men in the center of the stick would find them while the men at each end worked their way to the center to join up .
Chris
Chris,
This might help. The Longest Day dummies used were actual plastic US Paras
During WWII, these “Paradummies“ descended like real parachutists with a self-igniting explosive charge on their backs