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Dozens of parachutes descend on an airfield

Beneath three transports flying in line, dozens of white parachutes open almost at once, each with a small dark figure hanging below; the cloud of canopies sinks towards the horizon, and on a wide, flat field bordered by distant buildings and hangars the first jumpers touch down while others are still in the air. German newsreel footage. The massed drop over an open airfield could as well be an exercise; the source places it in the Netherlands, where paratroopers landed at Waalhaven near Rotterdam and around The Hague on 10 May 1940.

Period: c. 1938–May 1940
Credit: US National ArchivesPublic Domain · Digitalisierung und Bearbeitung: © zb Media GmbH

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German parachute landings in the Netherlands, May 1940 · Divide and Conquer: Norway, the Low Countries and France

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