As a Paratrooper from the 50's I found the Jump Commands given by Errol Flynn the most accurate then in any other movie I've ever seen. When we went out the door we went out almost on one anothers back to keep close to one another as they did in the movie.
shareI agree with excaliber208.
OBJECTIVE, BURMA! has the most realistic, rapid, inside-the-plane "rush-the-door" paratrooper jump exit sequence in movies, with the possible addition of the D-Day jump sequence in the film SCREAMING EAGLES.
That's the way it was done -- paratroopers didn't pimp into the doorway, pose, look around, and slowly jump one by one, like in THE DIRTY DOZEN (or the title sequence of SCREAMING EAGLES, when the purpose is to introduce the main members of the cast).
The mass jump in A Bridge Too Far is still my favourite.
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