LEARNING TO JUMP FROM THE SKY
Fifty daring young nurses in France are learning to become parachutists. The organiser of this new movement is Madame Suzette O’Nil Dranem, who is training the girls to become airminded so that in an emergency they will be able to jump into an aeroplane, be flown wherever they are needed', and then, without waiting for the machine to land, jump out. The girls are spending many hours learning how to fold a parachute properly, and are given minute instruction on how to descend. They are all thrilled! with their new profession, and agree with their instructor that, after taking off, there is a “ wonderful impression of solitude, silence, and light.”
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Evening Star, Issue 23451, 16 December 1939, Page 6
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116LEARNING TO JUMP FROM THE SKY Evening Star, Issue 23451, 16 December 1939, Page 6
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