Jigsaw puzzle, Airborne Operations

Another photo jigsaw puzzle, very popular with the young boys, is a picture of a massive airdrop of soldiers reaching a military objective by the fastest means. The soldiers are deployed into the battle zone by parachuting into the target area from several aircraft all at the same time.  The boys do not tire of assembling, and reassembling, this kind of puzzle.

Any boy’s eyes can open wide with utmost thrill and awe watching the skies swarming with armed men gliding down to the drop zone, hoping there will be little enemy resistance. Nevertheless, the airborne troops are ready any time to shoot it out even if they have not fully completed their parachute descent yet, if there are enemy soldiers waiting below.

This kind of pictures into jigsaw puzzles is a little complicated, as there are hundreds, even thousands, of soldiers parachuting down from the line of troop carrier aircrafts flying in some kind of formation to ensure the accuracy of the airdrop. An error by the planes’ pilots in identifying the drop zone correctly could be fatal to the troops.

The airdrop of soldiers is normally inside enemy lines to surprise the enemy forces, and may even happen at night. If the aircrafts drop the soldiers wrongly, right into enemy gun positions, that will be tragic to the soldiers coming down from the skies.

The young kids will enjoy the thrill of assembling the pieces of this jigsaw puzzle concentrating on identifying the various cut pieces of the puzzle to fit correctly into one another to form the desired picture. It will take Mom much time to call the little tots to take a break first from the puzzle to take their lunch, with repeated entreaties for just a minute more, before they finally troop to the dining table. Mom will also be a little frustrated that the kids will just gobble up what few bites they say is enough for their lunch and then hurry back to the unfinished puzzle laid out on the floor.

The boys, having been shown by Dad the air drop of a battalion of soldiers in the film “The Longest Day”, get their boyish satisfaction as they form little by little the scene of heavily armed soldiers descending in the night sky with some of the German’s powerful search lights hitting them and staying focused on them as they descend.

They have been asking Dad during his showing of the movie why the soldiers have to drop out of the plane at nighttime, and why not wait for the daylight hours so they may not find the airdrop too difficult to execute. Dad had to refer to such words like surprising the enemy and so forth and so on. The boys however could not be satisfied with his answers. Therefore, one thing Dad thought of doing was to buy the kids the wood jigsaw puzzle, so they can answer their own questions perhaps by themselves.