TWO PARATROOPERS LAND WITH ONE PARACHUTE
(Rec. 8 p.m.) BANGKOK, Feb. 16. The biggest thrill of the SEATO Powers’ armed demonstration today came when 600 American paratroopers spilled out of lumbering Cll9 Flying Boxcar transports right over the airfield at Bangkok. The crowd saw one of the paratrooper’s parachute fail to open and. as he hurtled past, one of his comrades grabbed him. The two drifted down to safety. On the ground, Paratroop Corporal
Douglas Eurris told how his action saved the life of a negro, Private Firstclass Arlene Cheatum. “I saw him come by,” said Burris. “His parachute was flapping, so I caught it and wrapped his shrouds around my wrist. We had a heavy landing.” The shaken Cheatum said that Burris’s action evened the score. In a recent manoeuvre in Japan, a negro private saved the life of a white sergeant in the same way, battalion officers said.
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Press, Volume XCIII, Issue 27896, 18 February 1956, Page 9
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