SHOOTING THEM DOWN
d PARACHUTISTS WERE THICK “We had a lot of fun shooting them as they came down, but, believe me, they were thick,” declared a soldier who had been through Greece and who e bad stopped a tommy-gun bullet in the e «- rm in a hand-to-hand encounter with one of the German parachute ti oops. These troops, ho said, were d well equipped, but he found, like other returned men have found, that the . German as an individual is not a tough ! r opponent, especially if there is a bayog net about, but in the mass, with their r dive-bombers roaring overhead and the e panzer divisions roaring along the roads, they require some handling. “If we had had the same equipment as they had we would have given them ;e more than they could have stood up • s to.” he said. “Our boys were wonderL _ tul, and the Germans knew it.” He added that the Germans relied r ci lot on the scare-power of their dived bombers. Ordinarily they were not jl oangerous to troops on the march if the men knew what to do, but their noise was terrifying at times. "Perh sonally, I never want <o see an aerod plane again,” he said.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 76, 10 September 1941, Page 7
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