About to step into thin air, a paratrooper of the 187th Regimental Combat Team pauses momentarily while the man below clears the area. This is a practice parachute jump in which 1,000 troopers, fully armed for combat, were first transported in the U.S. Far East Air Forces C-54 "Skymasters" to a rendezvous point, transferred into C-46 "Commandos", and flown to the present drop zone. 315th Air Division (Combat Cargo) transports have carried the 187th troopers on two actual combat assignments during the course of the Korean War.

(circa September 1951)