Paratroopers

Pilot Garrett Fleishman tapes the doorway of the Placid Lassie, a vintage C-47 plane, so the sharp edges will not rip the paratroopers’ static lines as they jump, ensuring their safe departure from the aircraft, Saturday, Aug. 13, 2022, at the Pittsfield Airport in Pittsfield, Mass. The team made two jumps Saturday in commemoration of the 80th anniversary of the 1942 crash in Peru State Forest, in which a C-53 plane hit Garnet Peak. The crash killed four crew members and 12 paratroopers of the 502nd Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division, known as “The Screaming Eagles.”

(Stephanie Zollshan/The Berkshire Eagle via AP)