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From the collection of the U.S. Army Quartermaster Museum, Fort Lee, Virginia World War II, "Ready to Jump"U.S. Army Signal Corps Photo-Undated Second Army Tennessee Maneuvers 1943, Men packing .30 cal ammunition boxes into canvas wrappers for parachuting from...
CPT Jordan S. Chroman Quartermaster Professional Bulletin - Spring 1997 Two C-130s circle the sparkling Mediterranean Sea in lazy arcs, the Italian sky is cloudless, all seems calm and peaceful in this sleepy part of Sicily...suddenly the aircraft ramps open and a...
CPT Stephen R. Davis CPT Mary E. Denniston CPT Edward F. EhlersCPT John B. Hinson CPT Maria Ogden Quartermaster Professional Bulletin-Autumn 1997 Operation Provide Promise was the largest humanitarian airdrop operation in the history of the United States. Relief...
By Lieutenant Gordon C. BennettQuartermaster Review January-February 1953 "When there is no book, write the book!" Members of the 8081st Army Unit (full designation: Quartermaster Airborne Air Supply & Packaging Company) were faced with this alternative a few...
MAJOR RAYMOND C. ALTERMATT, Q.M.C.The Quartermaster ReviewSeptember-October 1945 The origin of the parachute dates back many years. The first record of its use was described by a passenger of a burning balloon, who made a successful escape by parachute in July 1908....
From the collection of the U.S. Army Quartermaster Museum, Fort Lee, Virginia Korean ConflictPathfinder Group- 8081st Army Unit (Quartermaster)leaving airplane in practice jump 24 May 1952Camp Kokura Photo Lab, U.S. Army Photo Exercise "Snow Storm" A pilot chute...
Quartermaster Professional Bulletin - Summer 1990 New Cumberland Army Depot (NCAD), PA, participated in the U.S. Army's Operation Dragon Tail recently by delivering supplies directly from the wholesale level to awaiting soldiers on the ground at Fort Bragg, NC. "This...
CPT Brian L. Williams CW3 Ken K. Studer CW2 Nancy E. Studer Quartermaster Professional Bulletin - Autumn 1993 Fighting in Eastern Bosnia-Hercegovenia (formerly Yugoslavia) between ethnic rivals has intensified. More and more civilians are being displaced. The...
By PVT. Tony RickettiQuartermaster Review September-October 1953 When it comes to handing out plaudits to the Army the Marines generally change the conversation to the Halls of Montezuma or talk about the weather. But if the talk gets around to the day the Army’s...
he Quartermaster ReviewMarch-April 1945 Airdrop operations in the first sustained Chinese offensive against the Japanese in WWII. In the wake of the slow-flying green transport the parachutes billowed out, their bundles swaying pendulum-like...