[French air force parachute, Two parachutists in a cockpit at Paratrooper school in Avignon-Pujaut, France]

[French air force parachute, Students practice folding a parachute at Paratrooper school in Avignon-Pujaut, France]

[French air force parachute, Students practice folding a parachute at Paratrooper school in Avignon-Pujaut, France]

[French air force parachute, Two parachutists in a cockpit at Paratrooper school in Avignon-Pujaut, France]

[Crowd on balcony attending a Communist rally in Parc des Expositions de Wacken, Strasbourg, Alsace, France]

[American paratrooper ready to board the plane for the jump across the Rhine, Arras, France]

[Crowd on balcony attending a Communist rally in Parc des Expositions de Wacken, Strasbourg, Alsace, France]

[Telegram from Roman Vishniac to his family in Stockholm, Camp du Ruchard Internment Camp, France]