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This was an age where High Command cheerfully sent men over the top to walk in rows in the face of machine gun fire and then seek to shoot as cowards those who could see the foolishness of the tactic and refused to engage in what amounted to suicide. Little wonder that parachutes were given such low priority. The modern mind, accustomed now to casualty free or minimal casualty wars, well, for US-UK-Australian forces anyway, wonders why, if a free fall parachute was available in 1922, more emphasis was not placed on its development during 1917 and 1918.