I am a 77 year old marine from second anglico . We all went to army jump school as the Marines didn't have their own school . I went airborne in 1965 as all of anglico were radio operators , forward observers . I was proud to have done this and regular Marines had a problem with our jump boots and gold jump wings . We also had Navy udt 11 and 12 going through at the same time . I don't remember any fun times at all , but this is still a good movie of sorts .
My father was 82nd Airborne, 30 years (1942-1972). I was an "Airborne brat." Spent my life at Ft. Bragg, Ft. Ord, Ft. Jackson. He retired as a jump master. WWII, Korea and Vietnam (3 times).
..because of the draft... the army was pretty slack but now they are square away soldiers, i would even be proud to be a soldier today....i join the marine corps in 68, i got stationed in Hawaii but like a dummy I volunteered for Vietnam...that was the best move i ever made, i got hurt and got out with a disability and retired at 24 with couple grand a month .....whole bunch of my friends never made it back.....I live for them....thank God..
I am proud of all of you who had the guts to make it and did so willingly. I'm a disabled Marine and a brotherhood is a bond that can't be beat no matter which uniform you wear..God bless you all
My grandfather was Co. I 505th P.I.R - RCT 82nd AB in WWII. He had 3 battle stars in his jump winds and a silver battle star in his ETO Campaign Medal. My dad took basic at Fort Benning in 1967, he said all them Airborne boys did was run, run to chow, run to the barracks, even run in their sleep. I found out that first hand when I went thru it in 1989.
82nd Airborne Division is a brotherhood that no other branch understands. Division is home and past and present Paratroopers always have a special bond, AATW 😎👍❤️🇺🇸🎖
No one can understand an 82nd Airborne Division Paratrooper Brotherhood. Anyone can jump and be qualified but to be an Eighty Deuce and embedded with its legacy is a special brotherhood AATW ❤😎🇺🇸🎖
I remember my 4 years in the 82nd fondly but me and LT's sometimes did not always get along. 1 delayed my promotion to SGt because he acted knowing only part of the facts. I changed companies and got promoted. It was weird how that happened. Word got out I was not happy and the other company recruited me so I went there.
I still love this movie, well, to me a documentary type of movie because it does show what a Airborne paratrooper goes through. My dad died 6 years ago and I still cry when I see this, since this is where I was born and lived a good part of my life. I still recognize all the scenery , even though it's changed and been built up, the All American Freeway, modern brick buildings instead of wood. I miss those WW2 era buildings. Of course, after 911, it really changed. Ft Bragg is now a closed base, the museum is off the base. It's still home for me with a different generation of Airborne Paratroopers.
As a result of multiple rounds of BRAC - many base closures were experienced . . . amongst all the services. My big closure was Lowry AFB, Denver, CO. Only survival was a big hanger that housed many Armed Forces aircraft no longer in the inventory. Air Force Accounting & Finance remained active for a few years, as well. Aurora, got it's golf course. Buckley Air Nat'l Guard Base by default became its' only active airfield, however it's inevitably surrounded by the Aurora community, as Denver really grew, in population. 🎭 🇺🇸
I remember when I went to Fort Dix for basic combat training in 1963 those WWII wooden barracks we were in all had a number on them that began with the letter "T". We were told that the "T" stood for "Temporary".
Being raised in the The All American city, Fayetteville, North Carolina, I can honestly say that I enjoyed watching this movie; especially seeing the old barracks building from almost 70 years ago.
I’m proud to say that General James Gavin , Jumping Jim Gavin was raised in my coal mining hometown of Mount Carmel Pennsylvania. Anyone that was in the 82nd will know him and may have jumped with him in WW2, At 78, I’m the youngest of the 5 Miller brothers who proudly served Our Country. My brother Harold was in WW2 and served in Sicily and Italy and at one point served under another famous General George Patton.
Before Ranger school, went through jump school in '77. Movie brings back stuff that I forgot. I do remember not having much personal time as these guys. Thanks for posting.
Was stationed Bragg March 64 until Dec 65 when the unit 1st MI battalion went to Vietnam. Wife and kids stayed in Fayetteville. After a year there, went back to take the family to Fort Ord. My next time I went to Vietnam, my wife and kids went back to Fayetteville.
I have two cousins who were both at Bragg in the early 60's when this movie was filmed there. One was in the 325th and the other was in the 187th Rakkasans before the went to Ft. Campbell. My cousin who was in the 187th later went to Vietnam and served 3 tours with the 173rd Abn.
+J High Just to correct a point, the 187th from Bragg 'was not' the one at Campbell. At Campbell we had the 2d Abn Battle Group, 187th Infantry (my unit when I went through jump school at Campbell in Sept 1959) and at Bragg they had the 1st Abn Battle Group, 187th Infantry.
+John Linardy Thanks for the info. I know he was in the 187th at Ft. Bragg, but I'm not sure they were part of the 82nd Airborne Division or a separate unit.
Joined the 187RCT at Bragg's Smoke Bomb Hill in '55 which went to Campbell as cadre to reactivate the 101 in '56. We got cap patches and permission to wear bloused boots on our class A's right off. The corcoran Jump Boots were made in my home town, Stoughton, MA. They told us "Rakkasan" means "Falling Umbrellas" but it's really "Raka San" and in Japanese means "Madame Parasol".
This is the first time I've seen" Airborne". I Am Prior Service USMC and US Army, and, it brings Me memories of My time at the US Army Basic Airborne Course at Fort Benning, Georgia in 1996. While I was in the 3d Ranger Battalion, I attended SERE High - Risk at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. This is a good movie. AIRBORNE ALL THE WAY!!🇺🇸🦅🗽🔫
I graduated from the 82nd Airborne Jump School at Fort Bragg on January 18.1962. We were the 1st class to return to Fort Bragg, at that time. It seems from time to time Fort Bragg's school closes and they transfer jump school training to the 101st Airborne...until they need more capacity, then Bragg reopens. :-) AIRBORNE ALL THE WAY!!! Reading the comments, I forgot to mention...as jump school trainees we lived in our assigned units (which would be our permanent barracks with qualified paratroopers)...and took a lot of harassment as 'Legs' (Non Qualified Jumpers) living with paratroopers. :-)
I graduated 82nd Abn jump school at Bragg In March 1960. I was in B Co, 2nd Abn Battle Group, 501st Inf in what was then called “the new division area” which was company sized concrete buildings. Then sent to Mainz, Germany in early January 1960 and assigned to the 1st Abn BG of the 504th Inf where I stayed till January 1963.
A great movie and a fantastic snapshot of the American peace time Army. Korea was a decade behind them and Vietnam was three years away. The draft got some, but there were still plenty of volunteers. Life was good in 62.
OMG this is great, ,my first time watching it , I was 1/508th in the 82nd, 71-74 , lot of this was still the same when I went thru . Brings back many memories
That means your dad was a jumpmaster. He hung out of planes to see the dropzone and then directed the jumpers on the aircraft to jump when the green light came on. He also checked all of the jumpers equipment.
@@kjvnews8326 He was a private in WW2 but stayed in the 82nd until 1972. He was a jumpmaster and instructor at Ft. Gordon and served on General Westmorland's staff in Saigon on his 2nd tour of Vietnam. He retired as a Sgt. Major. When I was born, in Pittsburgh, the middle child of 7, the last 2 were born at Ft. Ord, California and the youngest in La Rochelle. France. We ended up at Ft. Bragg when I was 9. At 13, we were transferred to Ft. Jackson SC where my father was a DI on "Company B, Tank Hill." Then transferred to Ft. Gorden as a jump instructor in AIT. Why do you ask? Being an obvious news station, I would be happy to speak with you about my father's service in the 82nd.
@@jaygreider4753 I served in the 5th Special Forces group for 2 1/2 years & C Co. 3rd Battalion of the 325th Infantry in the 82d for another 2 1/2 years. I had about 100 jumps. While in S.F. I worked as a DZSO Drop Zone safety officer and set up the DZ's on Bragg for many jumps. All of the DZ's on Fort Bragg were named after World War II battlefields where the airborne jumped - Normandy, Nijmegan, St. Mere Eglise, Sicily & Luzon. My daughter was born in Fayetteville in 1980. Now sh'e's 40. Except for Jungle training in Panama & northern warfare training in Alaska my whole time after basic at Dix, AIT, at Ft. Jackson & Jump school at Benning, I was at Bragg the entire time. My father took basic at Bragg and was sent to Korea in 1950 where he lost 3 friends.
@@kjvnews8326 I was at 3rd and 325 as well , that was in 79 when the hostages hav been taken in Iran, we are packed up and ready to go then at the Old World War II barracks with barbwire on alert status.
What a wonderful time in american history.A great film...clearly meant to boost the moral of the common man entering the Airborne.I really wish I had joined the Army Airborne.For those reading and young enough to do so.....DO IT!...You will change your life and thank me later.
My grandfather Master Sergeant James Blue (82nd Airborne, 508th PIR, A Co. WWII 1919-2004) played himself as the 82nd Airborne museum curator seen at 1:09:00. This movie is priceless, to be able to go back and watch that portion when I feel the memory of him is fading away. Wish I would have known about this movie when he was alive.
Reporting for jump school after basic,, Pvts did not blouse boots or wear glider patches until completing jump coarse,, now back to movie to find other Hollywood F ups,, i was 101st in '67-'70,
I've always loved this film.Its like a time travel back in time.My dear dad,(R.I.P.)arrived in San Antonio,TX in 1952 from Philly.He said,they all got off train wearing winter overcoats,while the awaiting sgt's were on the platforms in the Texas heat wearing short sleeves in khakis-😎😡😳😳😳-
My brother actually WAS Drill Sergeant at for the 82nd Airborne at Ft. Bragg in the late 60s, probably one of the best they ever had. Unfortunately (or, maybe, fortunately), I went through Basic and AIT at Ft. Sam Houston for medic training, so I never saw him "in action".
I saw this a long time ago and really liked it. I was thrilled to find it on youtube. Bobby Diamond, who plays Slocum, played a part in the "Aunt Bea's Invisible Beau" episode of the Andy Griffith show in 1965.
I have to go through the Andy Griffith show and look for him. I remember there being an episode named that. I ran across this while looking for something similar. The guy that played Sgt. White looks exactly like one of the villains men that played on The Wild Wild West. He was on most of the episodes and had no speaking parts, at that time if they didn't have any lines they weren't mentioned in the credits. Just wondered if anyone mentioned it in the comments.
this was produced 12 yrs before i went to jump school and i never saw this movie until many years later it was fun to watch and took be back to jump school thanks for sharing and all that watch this video i hope you enjoy it
Jump School at Benning in 72, Assigned to 1-325 AIR afterwards and for the next seven years. Went off to other units for a while, then back to 2-504 PIR for Desert Storm. The movie is great for a 1962 production. What got me the most was that I made my first four jumps out of a C-119. Last jump was out of a C-141. Didn't do a 130 until I got to Bragg. The Boxcar was a great jump!
Airborne is a 1962 American film written and directed by James Landis and starring Bobby Diamond. As of 2009 it is in the Public Domain and can be streamed on RU-vid or downloaded via the Internet Archive. The film tells the story of a young man (Diamond) and his journey to become a US paratrooper. Airborne features training methods used by the US jump school at the time and is an interesting historical document in this respect. Closing credits indicate that the film is dedicated to the veterans of the US 82nd Airborne (All American) Division who established the traditions of the unit in World War II. In 1964, Diamond graduated from Ulysses S. Grant High School in the San Fernando Valley. He has two sons from a previous marriage to Tara Parker. His interest in the law was spurred by his efforts to procure a student draft deferment during the Vietnam War... (WTF?)- I say again Bobby, (WTF?) *Update:* Bobby Diamond, who portrayed a young orphan opposite Peter Graves and a wild stallion on the 1950s NBC series Fury, has died. He was 75. Diamond died May 15, 2020 of cancer at Los Robles Regional Medical Center in Thousand Oaks, Calif.
I was shocked, what a good movie for 1962. It had my attention and learned a few things, like when the black man in the first jump said "There's nothing wrong with being afraid, unless you give into it". For a minute I thought I was living in a 'Raceless' world. Some great men produced this movie based on great principles. I see where they stole 'Goomer Pyle'
Not much has changed except its Sergeant Airborne now. The infamous black hat. I dont think I ever ran so much in my life, oh maybe Air Assault school.
Wish I'd just went ahead to jump school that the Army offered to all active duty during boot camp. A National Guard recruiter where I work said "Yea but your ankles, knees and back are thanking you 20 years later."
I remember seeing this as a kid, I read about the airborne in WWII. I always wanted to be airborne, Glad I am AATW. I'm just a simple old soldier who is a hell raiser and a paratrooper. lol.
I really had fun at Jump School at Ft.Benning in 1986.It was tough but the Black Hats made it fun.There were tough guys who quit even before training started.Every morning the Black Hats begged people to quit.The guys who were with me back then who survived training and eventually made 5 jumps to become Paratroopers I never forgot them.Most went to the 82nd ABN,me I went to the 1/508th PIR in Panama.Good times great memories.
RedDevils!! 2nd Generation Devil born and raised at Bragg. Father - 2/508th PIR (1st BDE 82nd) 1973-1976 Son - 1/508th ABN (173rd ABN BDE) OEF 6 - MTR PLT LDR
My Dad was drafted, into the Army, during the Korean war, and went straight in to the Medical Corps, because he had a college degree in Psychology, and that's where they needed him.
I joined the Army Natl. Guard in 1963, at age 17 & went through "Basic" in early '64 & wished that they left me with the amount of hair that the soldiers still had, in this film! They even charged me $.90 each week, to do it! (p.s Actor/Director Terry Gilliam (Monty Python) was my "bunk mate"!) p.p.s. My uncle, Thomas Walsh, lost his leg, fighting at Anzio!
Excellent film, very enjoyable, and it’s not the first time I have watched it, it’s one of those films that you can watch time and time again. I do wish though that the screen writers would have not had the two sergeants saluting each other, a Non-Com never has and never should salute each other.
Ft. "Binning"........What kind of paratrooper spells the Home of the Airborne, wrong? It's B-E-N-N-I-N-G. The Black-Hats would have this guy pushing red clay til his hands were attached to his shoulders.
I wish I had about a half dozen of these hats like they are wearing here at 4:56. They sure were comfortable. I wore these same hats when I was in Germany 1961-1964.
20 retired but my heart was rear detachment but I did my fair amount time in elite combat arms units at fort devens ten group ma and fort drum worse assignment was fort sill Ok two tours Korea one 2 I'd in armor camp Cassy second was Pusan
Amazing, was this country ever as sane and right as this? Sure let's you know in terms of social atmosphere what we have lost in the post 1965 world.....
Hey Bro Jim.. I See it in My RU-vid Phone Notifications But I Can't Open it and Put a Like on it Or Reply.. And It Ain't Showin on My Computer at All... But Yessir... No Use Bro... Lol :) (y) (y)
I can thoroughly identify with the two soldiers nodding off at the 22:04 mark. When I was in basic training I had sleep apnea, not diagnosed until I had my first heart attack at age 52...
yup, and if you Ever chance to see a Air Force Blue Jump Wing (They are NOT Qualified Jump Status EVER)!.....Must be Army and BLK! I do not get why they got those anyway...usually officers...LOL
I was at FT Bragg in 1972 assigned to the 573rd Personal Service Unit. We handled the records for all the Airborne support units. I was in the Actions section and handled retirement actions. No building wise change. The Barracks on that slightly slopeing hill was the location of our barracks. I liked the set up at Bragg better than my two other stateside assignments: Ft Lewis and Ft McClellan. Not the most interesting job however. My best duty station was in VietNam. If I was in better shape, I would have made a career out of the Army. But I got out and resumed teaching Math at UNLV
Thanks Reddevlparatrooper!! ATW!! We're damn proud of being 508th RedDevils. We're crazy SOBs! Legs don't understand us etc. I'll be sure hit your page up and see you videos etc. I had the privileged of going down to Panama in 1998 as a PFC in the 75th Ranger Regiment (3rd Batt). I received my Jungle Expert badge :) Father did 5 tours down there as Rifle / Mortar/Wpns PL / CO XO and Div PF Commander. They should of never closed it down. ATW!!! Aaron
Just wondering how many people showed up for boot camp with a suitcase let alone a guitar. I had what I was wearing, Don't recall anyone else with a suitcase either. We sure as hell didn't just go sauntering down the street when we got off that bus at MCRD Parris Island at about 1 AM. in 74'
I grew up about 30 miles south of Aberdeen(Hamlet, NC) and would have graduated from high school in 1963. By late 65(when I was working in Atlanta), I'd drive through the back side of Ft. Jackson in Columbia on the way home and watch the recruits riding in the back of deuce and a halfs...By March, 66, I was there riding with them.. We used to watch the guys jump near Camp McColl when I was growing up. When they would have field maneuvers, they'd give us M-14 blanks, cigarettes, etc.
When I went through Infantry school in 2007 Sgt. York's great nephew or something like that was going through a cycle too, I remember seeing it in the paper. In FT. Benning, at the infantry museum they have SGT. York's gear on display, right beside it is Hitlers statue head turned upside down, and a burnt version of mein kampf. Was a treat going there to see all that history.
I'm glad I didn't see this movie when it came out in '62, I'd have gone and joined the Airborne then get killed in Vietnam. Great PR movie. Looks totally real.
Not inevitable that you would have gotten killed. Most survive in combat and service in a theater of war. You might have gotten killed, but you might get killed crossing the street. You’re simply rationalizing about why you didn’t do something. I served with a guy who was ex-11B (Infantry) and he served three years in Germany at the height of the Vietnam War. I was in 1968-72, and I fought the commie polar bears in Alaska and then several places in the states. The wartime Army is a big place. Plenty of locations and assignments world wide. You might have ended up in the 173rd Airborne or not. Plenty of clerk typists get killed too, not airborne qualified.
My maternal uncle David (my only maternal and most beloved uncle a little boy could long for) was 101st Airborne, between the Korean and Vietnam War, fortunately. My father was a Japan occupation force Army Staff Sergeant, also stationed in Guam, then later recalled as a photographer for Eisenhower and other brass in Korea as well as a combat photographer. Later he served as a civilian Navy worker, a Health Physicist, commissioning the nuclear sub and surface fleet, including the beginning of the Trident program. I later myself, as a civilian, visited Japan and Guam out of sheer serendipity, but my Dad was so happy I could see where he served, though I never visited Korea, my civilian work did not take me there. Being raised by a former Staff Sergeant, though I registered, I was never called up for the draft since Vietnam ended only as I was entering high school in '75, and registration was due to the Iranian crisis, and none of us had any qualms about serving if called to duty, even though I knew it could have taken me from college, I would have even served as an enlisted man given the crisis our nation was in at that time. My Dad always prepared me as if I could be in the military, with discipline, but fairness, with patriotism, but no blatant flag waving. For him, war was different than the Vietnam era, it was an extension of WWII, as it was for my Uncle. My great maternal uncle was Gene Autry's driver in WWII, in the case of both my father and uncles, their assignments, as volunteers, came from political connections with the Mayor of Chicago, who my grandfather knew personally, an Italian immigrant prior to WW1, fiercely loyal to the US which took him and my grandmother in via Ellis Island. I enjoy movies like this, though as a kid I wondered how the world changed from black and white to color after WWII.
