Testing the parachute harness before the drop at Grossa aerodrome, 26 June 1918

Photograph, World War One, Italy, (1915-1918), 1918.

British and Italian intelligence officers organised trials of a device for dropping a man by parachute through the floor of an Italian Savoia-Pomilio SP4 aircraft. The tests were conducted in front of Allied officers by the Royal Air Force at Grossa and San Pelagio aerodromes in June 1918.

From a collection of photographs collected by Lt Col John Fillis Carré Carter whilst serving in Intelligence in Italy.