Us Official Photographs

Gurkha paratroopers near Rangoon

RANGOON ASSAULT -- As the chutes of three Gurkha paratroopers open up over their dropping zone near Rangoon, three more Gurkhas stolidly step out of USAAF C47s of the Combat Cargo Task Force, Eastern Air Command. This is precision jumping in the airborne phase of the land, sea, and air attack launched south of the Japanese-held capital of Burma. Parapacks, containing equipment and supplies needed by the paratroopers, are carried like bombs under the bellies of the planes. They will be dropped as soon as the men have cleared the aircraft.