PARATROOPS by the PACKAGE


Like rations or ammo, infantry squads in metal containers can be dropped behind enemy lines.
By Frank Tinsley
SURPRISE packages have become America's newest war weapon!
Engineers in the Air Materiel Command are testing a 6,000-pound capacity container which can be used to drop an entire infantry squad, completely equipped, from an airplane.
A universal-type container, along with another cargo container, recently designed by the laboratory, will be used in the newer cargo airplanes such as the Fairchild C-119. The second container has been developed for use with the overhead mon- orail of the C-119. Still in an early research and development stage, the universal container holds great promise.