1943 Parachute Training

Fort Benning, Georgia

submitted by Tom Reber
(son of Lt. Robert J. Reber, HQ Co. 3rd)
Updated photos added from Mike Kane - Oct 2006

This booklet was issued in 1943, as a souvenir of Ft. Benning parachute training.

Although not specific to the 517 PRCT, it contains photos of typical training activities at the time.

Printing instructions: It depends on your Internet Explorer or other viewing program, but in most cases once you get to the page that you want to print, you should click once on the image itself . Nothing will happen, but the viewer will now know that you are on that frame of the page. Then you go to the "File" menu, and select "Print". On the lower section, it will ask you how you want to print the selected frames. Make sure you choose the "Only the selected frame" option. (See diagram below) This will print out one page at a time, and should fit well onto normal 8 1/2 x 11 paper.