PARACHUTE JUMPS.
SOVIET EX PERI AIENTS. Received June 12, 9.50 a.m. AfOSCOW, June 11. A series of experimental mass parachute jumps were carried out in the North Caucasus from great heights. Seven men jumped from 26,902 feet. It is claimed the Soviet posses sixty thousand “air infantry.”
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 163, 12 June 1939, Page 7
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