PARACHUTE TROOPS
AMERICANS IN ENGLAND
EAGER TO DROP IN ON EUROPE.
WHEN THE TIME ARRIVES.
(Special P.A. Correspondent.) (Received This Day, 9.55 a.m.) LONDON, September 24.
United States parachute troops now training in England are cooperating with British airborne troops. They are highly trained, efficient, eager and ready for dropping on Europe when the time arrives, Their average age is in the vicinity of 23 to 24. They are still in training and are pooling ideas
with the British. The men work in squads of twelve and carry out a set drill before jumping. They have two parachutes, and as they jump call out “one thousand, two thousand! three thousand!” and, if the parachute has not opened by then, the jumpempulls the ripcord of his reserve parachute. That only happened once, when a Mexican corporal pulled the ripcord when only 100 feet from the ground and landed safely. During their training the American battalion conformed with a United States Air Corps regulation that they must not jump from lower than 800 feet but they were permitted to jump IT’om a lower level aftei' arriving in England.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 25 September 1942, Page 3
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