AIR INFANTRY
SAID TO NUMBER 60,000 IN RUSSIA PARACHUTE EXPERIMENTS. JUMPS FROM GREAT HEIGHTS. By Talegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Received This Day, 9.50 a.m.) MOSCOW. June 11. Experimental mass parachute jumps were carried out in the North Caucasus, from great heights. Seven men jumped from 26.902 feet. It is claimed that the Soviet possesses 60.000 “air infantry.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 June 1939, Page 5
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55AIR INFANTRY Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 June 1939, Page 5
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