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<ul><li><b>Scope and content:</b>  About to step into thin air, a paratrooper of the 187th Regimental Combat Team pauses momentarily while the man below clears the area. This is a practice parachute jump in which 1,000 troopers, fully armed for combat, were first transported in the U.S. Far East Air Forces C-54 "Skymasters" to a rendezvous point, transferred into C-46 "Commandos", and flown to the present drop zone. 315th Air Division (Combat Cargo) transports have carried the 187th troopers on two actual combat assignments during the course of the Korean War.</li></ul></div>
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