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CPT Kenneth L. Stanten & CW2 Martin J. Neises Quartermaster Professional Bulletin – September 1988 The mission of the 21st Support Command is to provide logistical support to the U.S. Army European Theater of Operation. Within the 21st Support Command, the 5th…

Korean War Era

Airborne Quartermaster Field Operations By LT. COL. ROBERT C. McKECHNIE, QM-USARQuartermaster Review September-October 1950 What can you conceive more silly and extravagant than to suppose a man racking his brains, and studying night and day how to fly?—WILLIAM LAW…

World War II Era

Quartermaster Training Service Journal24 November 1944(From the archives of the U.S. Army Quartermaster Museum, Fort Lee, Virginia) The plane’s nosing over now. You’re heading down towards the jungle. As the plane circles lower, your eyes keep searching…

Rigger Essentials

The first Parachute badge was designed during World War II by Captain (later Lieutenant General) William P. Yarborough of the 501st Parachute Battalion. A memorandum of record written by Captain Yarborough on April 22, 1941, tells the story of the birth of the…

Aerial Delivery / Rigger Photographs

From the Archives of the U.S. Army Quartermaster Museum and the Aerial Delivery and Field Services Department, U.S. Army Quartermaster School and Center, Fort Lee, Virginia Operation “Test Drop”, Fort Bragg, NC, February 1953, An MRS tractor which landed upside down…

Other Aerial Delivery Historical Articles

James S. Emery Quartermaster Professional Bulletin – Spring 1991 Airdrop, as Army Systems go, is a relatively new method of delivering people, supplies and equipment into difficult-to-reach or enemy-held areas. Before World War II, the U.S. Army had no…

Korean War Era

By Richard S. BoutellePresident of Fairchild Engine and Airplane Corporation The Quartermaster Review, September-October 1950 The old adage “the bigger they are the harder they fall” is taking a kicking around in the air-delivery business. It has been our business for…

World War II Era

Dr. Steven AndersQuartermaster Professional Bulletin – Autumn/Winter 1994 Historical Background. The idea of dropping people and things safely out of the sky has been around for a long time. As far back as the late 15th century, the Italian genius, Leonardo da Vinci,…

Rigger Essentials

A listing of books, magazine and newspaper articles on Parachute Rigging Do you know of any other references that should be on this page? If so, leave us an e-mail note at: [email protected] and we’ll consider it for the next update of this page….

Aerial Delivery / Rigger Photographs

From the Archives of the U.S. Army Quartermaster Museum and the Aerial Delivery and Field Services Department, U.S. Army Quartermaster School and Center, Fort Lee, Virginia C-17 “Globemaster III” Heavy DropU.S. Air Force Photo, by Staff Sgt. David L….