parapack

[′par·ə‚pak]

(engineering)

A package or bundle with a parachute attached for dropping from an aircraft.

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The fire spread to the C-47's parapacks (containers slung under the aircraft's belly, holding additional supplies and ordnance, to be dropped on parachutes).

As Zimmerman helped gather supplies that were dropped in parapacks, he saw Dutch women come out of a row of houses.

Devils at Germany's back door: all the 504th "devils in baggy pants" parachute infantry had to do was jump hundreds of feet past whistling flak, march a dozen miles, and cross a river in canvas rowboats through a monsoon of gunfire. Maybe then Operation Market Garden would succeed

Perkins broke radio silence and culled his friend, yelling, "Bo, your parapacks are on fire and burning.