PARACHUTE RAID BY 1000 MEN
SOVIET MANOEUVRES ATTACK BEHIND ENEMY* LINES (UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPr&IGHT.'(Received September 16, 10.5 p.m:> LONDON, September 15. The Moscow correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph" says that more than 1000 men participating in a mass parachute raid descending on one aerodrome far behind the enemy lines with machine guns was - the most striking event in the Red army manceuvres, which were held in the Ukraine. The raiders, leaping from a fleet of four-engined bombers in daylight, were "destroyed" by motorised infantrv, cavalry, tanks, and armoured trains. The demonstration was clearly a "set piece," for in war the raiders would have been exterminated by anti-aircraft batI teries surrounding the aerodrome. Nevertheless, the raid was interesting, as it showed that specially I trained troops can descend almost , 1 simultaneously upon a point of strategic importance in the enemy» back areas.
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Press, Volume LXXI, Issue 21580, 17 September 1935, Page 11
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