RUSSIA / DEFENCE: World War II: Soviets train civilian parachute jumpers (1940)

BRITISH PARAMOUNT NEWSREEL (REUTERS) To license this film, visit A Russian military decree orders five million civilians to learn parachute jumping. Here several youths? Full Description: SLATE INFORMATION: RUSSIA GOES AIR-MINDED RUSSIA: Moscow: EXT LOW ANGLE jumping-off tower for parachutists Children and crowd looking on Side shot man fixing harness on little boy and he jumps from tower GROUND TO AIR small boy floating down on parachute and landing on ground HIGH ANGLE small boy coming down on parachute and lands with a bump Close up two women looking on and laughing LOW ANGLE girl down on parachute Girl smiling after landing on ground GROUND TO AIR two planes in air and many parachutists dropping from them Boy jumping from tower and landing on ground on his feet Background: A Russian military decree orders five million civilians to learn parachute jumping. Here sev