Paratroopers

ID: 82 ~ Source: Atlanta History Center ~ Date: 1942
This file appears in: Jumping Out of Airplanes

Paratroopers training at Fort Benning, Georgia, 1942. Andre Kessler trained there in the late 1950s so that he could accompany marines as a Navy medical corpsman.

ID: Six people running across a field carrying parachutes with parachutes in the sky above.

This file appears in: Jumping Out of Airplanes

By Andre Kessler
"I get my orders to report to Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, to be with the Marine Corps. They don’t have their own medical personnel. So us as Navy corpsmen are stationed with the Marines and take care of them... I wound up with the…