555th Parachute Infantry C-47 Skytrain taking off

Date: 12 september 1945

Image description:

Photograph from a series held by the National Archives on the first African American Airborne unit, the 555th Parachute Infantry Battalion, also known as the Triple Nickle. The description at the National Archives reads: “A Troop Carrier Command plane that has dropped combat troops in Normandy, Holland, and across the Rhine, takes off from Pendleton Army Air Field, Oregon with paratroopers equipped to fight forest fires in the northwest.”

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