Japanese Airborne Operations in World War II.

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Re: Japanese Airborne Operations in World War II.

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Post by Peter H » 13 Jun 2012, 06:51

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Post by ijnfleetadmiral » 13 Jun 2012, 09:21

These units were collated into the 1st Raiding Group under MGEN (later LTGEN) Tsukada Rikichi on 21 November 1944.

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Re: Japanese Airborne Operations in World War II.

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Post by Papa Nambu » 13 Jun 2012, 19:36

Has anyone seen a wartime photo showing the Type 2 paratrooper rifle? I've never seen a photo of Japanese paratroopers with this rifle. I don't doubt that they were used, but in the few photos I've seen with any rifles, they are either too far away or using regular rifles.

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Post by Fatboy Coxy » 13 Jun 2012, 19:40

Peter H wrote:Tower
OK Guys, anyone know how this worked.

I can see a metal outline for a parachute canopy suspended on wires, did this hold an open parachute and both soldier and chute were pulled up and then dropped?, or something else?

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Re: Japanese Airborne Operations in World War II.

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Post by Orwell1984 » 13 Jun 2012, 19:59

Fatboy Coxy wrote:
Peter H wrote:Tower
OK Guys, anyone know how this worked.

I can see a metal outline for a parachute canopy suspended on wires, did this hold an open parachute and both soldier and chute were pulled up and then dropped?, or something else?

Steve
You can watch one in action here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=en ... EJnZP0PNPM

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Post by Fatboy Coxy » 14 Jun 2012, 20:56

Thank you Orwell1984, how dumb am I for not knowing this. Any idea who first came up with these jump towers.

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Post by kgbudge » 16 Jun 2012, 03:17

Jumping from captive balloons, as a carnival stunt, dated back to the 1880s. It's not a huge conceptual jump from there to jumping from a large tower, bu the earliest mention I can find is to jump towers built by Safe Parachute Company in New Jersey well before war broke out in 1939. These were taken over by the U.S. Army for its jump training.

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Post by tigre » 02 Sep 2019, 02:52

Hello to all :D; more............................

March of the paratroopers - Sora no Shinpei.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=p ... tq9yZ0keYg

Cheers. Raúl M 8-).

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Post by Fatboy Coxy » 03 Sep 2019, 18:14

Thank Tigre

An enjoyable video.
A little detail I noted was at 9.07 the four man heavy machine gun crew swapped the load they carried off of one shoulder onto the other, nicely in step, must have been practiced loads of times. I wonder if they had a regulation as how long it was carried on one shoulder, or whether someone said can we change and they count down in steps, one, two, three, change?

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Post by tigre » 08 Sep 2019, 04:46

I think this time it was done for the show....but sure the crew had own (internal) coordination to change during the march. Cheers. Raúl M 8-).

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