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Superman Joins the Army and goes Skydiving

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MikeJD

Looking at the size of those troopers' canopies, especially the one in the foreground, I'd hope they're super-soldiers too. They're in for some hard landings!



That, and the fact that military round canopy operations usually take place a lot closer to the ground than the quoted 3 miles.
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I dig those two-riser canopy setups. They apparently have the lines sewn directly to the risers, without connector links - oh my!

Why is Superman falling feet-first? He can fly any darned way he wants. I'd by swooping all around the other paratroopers.

Oh, and the risk of a freefall/canopy collision looks high.

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Interesting that that cover was in 1959. Superman as a comic started selling in 1939, and fighting Nazis was a common theme in early comics. I'd have pegged that cover for 1945ish.

(Useless fact - Goebbels denounced Superman and his creator Jerry Siegel as a Jew. I am sure they were crushed.)

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