Summary: Recruitment documentary for the 44th Independent Parachute Brigade Group (Territorial Army) illustrates the activities of the Group's fifteen component units and outlines the attractive pay and allowances volunteers will receive if they commit to 20 evenings, 4 weekends and 15 days annual camp each year.
Description: Development of airborne warfare is recalled over archive film of Soviet paratroops in 1930s (Swedish subtitles) and German paratroops in 1940, preceding Britain's adoption of this new form of warfare during the Second World War. 44th Independent Parachute Brigade (headquartered at Duke of York Barracks, London) attracts wide variety of recruits, from postman to sales director, across the country. After course at Parachute Training School at RAF Abingdon (Berkshire), men are attached to variety of units, REME, RE, 12 Corps of Signals, RAMC, RMP and Special Air Service (seen parachuting into sea prior to pick-up by RAF ASR launch). Annual bounty of £30 tax-free, plus sport and annual camp at West Tofts (Norfolk), with airborne drop from Handley Page Hastings C-2 aircraft (WD498, WD497) of RAF 70 Squadron
