I’m looking for some information (this is a cross-post, already posted on the Word War II Aircraft forum)…
Can anyone help with more details on the parachute supply containers shown in the photos below?
These were used by the RAAF in New Guinea (one of the photos below shows the container under the wing of a Wirraway), and known as “Jungle Type Containers”, but I think they were fairly common. I’m specifically looking for dimensions.
I already have a suggestion that the diameter is 18″, but nothing to confirm this yet.
Note that these containers are not the “Storpedo” type, which has a conical nose as shown below:
I already have details on the Storpedo.
Cheers,
Derek
By: Arabella-Cox - 1st May 2012 at 08:47
I don’t think the ‘Jungle type containers’ are the SOE C or H types offered up by Bruggen 130 and they are certainly not the CLE types suggested by pfP7063. I’d suggest that they are a home grown Australian design which is interesting as they seem to have followed the general layout of the CLE whose shape was driven by the need to fit in British bombers and their bomb bays and bomb cells designed around the 500lb GP Bomb.
See in the Jungle types reminds me that another supply container designed and used in large numbers in the Far East during WW2 is still in service with Britain’s military. – Long live the SEAC pack, even though many of the army Air Despatchers pushing them out of a Hercules door would be at a loss to tell you what SEAC stood for.
By: Arabella-Cox - 1st May 2012 at 07:24
You might also find the following information to be useful.
http://philippe.chapill.pagesperso-orange.fr/container%20MK3.htm
Paul
By: Bruggen 130 - 30th April 2012 at 17:57
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Hi
Are these pics any use to you, I think your looking at two types of containers in your pics type C and type H.
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April 30, 2012 at 4:26 pm