The Archive · 1938

Troops Enter Barracks By Parachute Brunswick Sees Battalion Drop from Skies

SPECIAL TO THE "'N.CD.N."

Berlin, Nov. 8.

The spectacle of a whole infantry battalion making their entry barracks by parachutes was witnessed at Brunswick yesterday.

The troops flew from Stendal in a number of large aeroplanes flying in formation, and when they were at a height of about 360 feet man after man jumped with his parachute and landed in front of the barracks.

Later the men were presented with Herr Hitler's flag inscribed: "If you do not risk your life, you will never win."—Reuter.

Japanese naval air force,

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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