Airborne Reenactment Jumps Link to WWII Airborne Demonstration Team Homepage & ADT Market Garden Reenactment Jump Page - Sept 1999 (Back to Main Page)   The following pictures are from a 101st Airborne reenactment jump that was conducted on September 18, 1999 to commemorate the largest paratrooper operation in history, Operation Market Garden (September 17, 1944).   From the ADT: "The jump at 1100 hours, Saturday 18 Sept, was on Drop Zone B of the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne near Son. The jump was made in two nine man sticks with a jump altitude of 1000' above ground level (AGL). The DZ was marked by the modern active duty 101st Airborne Pathfinder Company from Ft Campbell, Kentucky. Light winds, cool dense air and soft plowed fields or eight foot high corn made for very soft landings."   "A second jump at 1300 hours, Sunday 19 Sept, was on Drop Zone T of the 508th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division, near Groesbeek. This was a one pass sixteen man stick from 850' AGL made without pathfinder support. Jumpmaster and Team First Sergeant Richard Wolf did an outstanding job of getting us all on the DZ. From GO until last man out was 13.8 seconds. Time under canopy was less than one minute. Again, everyone performed admirably. This was the first jump onto this DZ of any kind since 17 Sept 1944." (Pictures of this jump are coming soon). [Note: This location is also the same place where S/Sgt. David Rosenkrantz was killed in action 10 days after the original operation - PRR]   (Thanks to Benny Overhand for providing these pictures)

Since 27 September 1999