Posted on Jan 12, 2019
Paratroops: "Airborne to Battle" 1954 US Army; The Big Picture TV-280
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CW5 Jack Cardwell, My first jump was from a Fairchild C-119 "Flying Boxcar" on 7APR70. My photo is of a C-119 at then Pope AFB prior to a jump on a Fort Bragg DZ on 16JUL70 as part of SFTG. It was unbelievablely underpowered. When I made my first jump, the C-119 had already been in service over 20 years! Needless to say, this piece of junk is no longer in service!
Lt Col Charlie Brown SGT David A. 'Cowboy' Groth
Lt Col Charlie Brown SGT David A. 'Cowboy' Groth
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CW5 Jack Cardwell
As a kid I grew up in the sandhills around Ft Bragg. I used to love seeing those flying boxcars in the sky.
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LTC Stephen C.
CW5 Jack Cardwell, you would have been about 16 years old in 1970, so I may have been aboard one of those old C-119s you watched fly over your home!
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