M Paratroopers March Through Portsmouth -- Men of the 16th Independent Parachute Brigade group, get a cheer from crowds lining their route, as the first battalion marched through the street of Portsmouth to the dockyard today June 4. A thousand men wearing the famous red beret of the parachute regiment marched through the crowed lined streets of Portsmouth, Hampshire, today June 4. They were the first battalion fore-runners of 2,000 more Airborne men who are embarking today to sail to the Mediterranean. October 12, 1951. (Photo by Associated Press Photo).