PARACHUTING SOLDIERS
TRAINING IN GERMANY HANOVER, March 17.—Germany has a special school for training riflemen to serve in the" parachute rifle regiments. It is situated at Stendal, midway between Hanover and Berlin. The candidates for this type of service are chosen from volunteers. Adventurous types are not wanted and the army authorities prefer reliable men, preferably of peasauji-.stock. , The volunteers learnmfiiat to pn&rfff their own parachutes. I ‘Death watches' • at the packing table,” is the favourite h saying of the commander oL-tbe school. Major Riielnberger. The men have a special’training uniform which lias a blouse without- any buttons or straps which might catch, in the ropes or appliances of the parachute.
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Opotiki News, Volume II, Issue 226, 28 August 1939, Page 1
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111PARACHUTING SOLDIERS Opotiki News, Volume II, Issue 226, 28 August 1939, Page 1
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