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As each man completed his five qualifying jumps "from an aircraft in flight"
in parachute training at Fort Benning he received a certificate signed by Col. Lindquist.
The first of these examples
was awarded following the regiment's mass attendance of jump school in March
1943.
That was not the only class
that men of the 508th attended however and during 1943 when they joined the
regiment at Camp Mackall, similar certificates were issued.
Note the
examples of certificates for Harry Gerheim, dated as September 1942 but
but probably should be 1943 and John Daum, dated October 1943.
Harry Gerheim
seems to have been an honest man. Where his certificate reads "...
made the required number of jumps from an aircraft in flight", he
crossed out the word "FLIGHT" and wrote instead "FRIGHT".
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