Birmingham “Repulses” Parachute Troops
! (Rec. 12.30 p.m.) RUGBY, July 13. 1 A force of 2000 parachute troops which “invaded” Birmingham last night was decisively beaten by the Home Guard which was entrusted with the military defence of the city. In a big-scale exercise which started with a “severe air raid” the Home Guard did excellent work and prevented the invaders from penetrating even to the industrial belt of the city. Civil defence workers had to deal with about 200 “incidents". The land attack started in the early hours of the morning, when some 2000 parachutists, actually Allied and regular army forces, attacked the city from half a dozen different directions.. “Annihilated” In the early stages the invaders, helped by Fifth Columnists who had managed io get through the defender's lines, captured a number of positions, but they were continually meeting new detachments of defenders and heavy casualties were inflicted on them. Two companies which came in with a rush at one point after, seizing the railway station, were “completely annihilated.” .
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Northern Advocate, 14 July 1941, Page 6
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