FELL INTO SEA
ALLIED PARATROOPS WERE DROPPED 100 SOON Heed. 7-40 p.m. New York, Aui. 20. Allied paratroops, dropped 100 soon during i lie invasion of southern France, fell into tne sea and were drowned, says a Combined United States Press correspondent, Richard Mowrer. lie says the paratroops were dropped off Saint Tropez. “Il is impossible to estimate how many of these men were drowned perhaps,” he writes. It was not anyone’s lault that they were given the ‘go’ signal too soon. The troop carriers flew at night, and when thty reached the Riviera a wide blanket of fog had blackeneu out all the landmarks. “Fewer paratroops would have have boon drowned han their parachutes been fitted with Ihe British quick-release box, which lets the man out of his harness in the fraction of a second.” (The quick-release 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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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 88, Issue 200, 22 August 1944, Page 5
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