British paratroopers retrieve folding motorcycles or 'Welbikes' from equipment containers, Bulford, South West England, 9 June 1943

British paratroopers retrieve folding motorcycles or 'Welbikes' from equipment containers, Bulford, South West England, 9 June 1943

German paratroopers manning a 7.5 cm Flak 264/3(i) anti-aircraft gun, San Felice Circeo, Italy, December, 1943.

                                                         Source : Bild 101I-567-1503E-20

German paratroopers manning a 7.5 cm Flak 264/3(i) anti-aircraft gun, San Felice Circeo, Italy, December, 1943.

British paratroopers in a trench with a No.76 wireless set. Helden, Netherlands, 3rd January 1945.

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British paratroopers in a trench with a No. 76 wireless set. Helden, Netherlands, 3rd January 1945.

German paratrooper armed with an MP-40 submachine gun, in the trench on the Eastern Front; winter of 1942-1943.

German paratrooper armed with an MP-40 submachine gun, in the trench on the Eastern Front; winter of 1942-1943.

German paratroopers in action on Battle of Crete, Greece,Mai 1941

   Source : https://www.dhm.de/lemo/bestand/objekt/deutsche-fallschirmjaeger-auf-kreta-1941.html

German paratroopers in action on Battle of Crete, Greece, May 1941

photograph

Crete May 1941

13.6 x 8.5 cm

Deutsches Historisches Museum, Berlin

F 60/2017

A group of German paratroopers in Tunisia examine a captured Thompson machinegun (Thompson M1928 / M1) in 1943.

                                          Source : Bundesarchiv, Bild 101I-788-0009-08A

A group of German paratroopers in Tunisia examine a captured Thompson machinegun (Thompson M1928 / M1) in 1943.

German paratroopers in an outpost in the Italian mountains overlooking the Italian countryside, 1944.

German paratroopers in an outpost in the Italian mountains overlooking the Italian countryside, 1944.

A German Paratrooper, during the observation of a area in the mountains on the Italian front.

A German Paratrooper, during the observation of a area in the mountains on the Italian front.

A German paratrooper on the Eastern Front carries a wounded sergeant, in 1942

A German paratrooper on the Eastern Front carries a wounded sergeant, in 1942