SOME FELL INTO SEA
Paratroops Drowned (Received August 21, 9 p.m.) NEW YORK, August 20. Allied paratroops who were dropped too soon during the invasion of southern France fell into the sea and were drowned, says the combined United States Press correspondent, Richard Mowrer. He says the paratroops were dropped off St. Tropez. “It is impossible to estimate how many of these men were drowned,” he said. “Perhaps it was not anyone’s fault that they were given the ‘go’ signal too soon. The troop carriers flew at night, and when they reached the Riviera a wide blanket of fog had blackened out all landmarks. Fewer paratroops would have been drowned had their parachutes been fitted with the British quick-release box which lets a man out of his harness in the fraction of a second.” (The quickrelease box is a circular lock holding the ends of all the parachute harness straps. It, can be released by turning a catch.)
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Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 279, 22 August 1944, Page 5
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