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LIFE Magazine, August 10, 1940
Parachute Test Platoon
floats gently to earth in this early press release photo.  The photo and its topic was so revolutionary that it gained the coveted front cover spot on one of the nation's most widely circulated magazines of the time.

It undoubtedly served to motivate many young men to subsequently volunteer for parachutist duty.

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