SOLDIERS PARACHUTED FROM PLANES
MOCK BATTLE IN RUSSIA. (United Press Assn.—Telegraph Copyright.) Minsk, September 10. Twelve hundred soldiers parachuted en masse from scores of aeroplanes and landed behind “enemy” lines during a mock battle. They carried 150 dismantled machine-guns and ammunition. Eighteen field guns were also parachuted. The weapons were assembled within eight minutes, and the enemy was then routed by a real* attack.
Major-General A. P. Wavell, chief of the British Military Mission, said that he would not have believed it possible if he had not seen it
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Southland Times, Issue 22993, 12 September 1936, Page 7
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