San Antonio, Texas. From a position behind the "front lines", the airborne troopers were rushed to the objective on a split-second schedule to deliver the first blow in a carefully-planned offensive. A jeep is being loaded into a plane as part of this problem
Summary
Image source: U.S. Army Signal Corps.
Title and other information from caption card.
Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944.
More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsaowi
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Tags
Date
01/01/1942
Location
bexar county
Source
Library of Congress
Copyright info
No known restrictions on images made by the U.S. government; images copied from other sources may be restricted. For information, see U.S. Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Black & White Photographs http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/071_fsab.html