Word: parachutist
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...General, a qualified parachutist who has absorbed many a hard wallop, was getting back his wind and consciousness. He sat up, looked around. Presently some medical officers came up on the double and took him off, grinning and protesting, to an evacuation hospital set up in tents a few miles away...
...They dig deep, stand-up foxholes, which are safe except under direct artillery fire (and which are better than U.S. slit trenches). On the defensive, they dig themselves dugouts protected by palm trunks, and then they crawl in and resist until some explosive or a human terrier kills them. Parachutist Major Harry Torgeson, who had the job of blasting Japs out of the caves on Gavutu (TIME, Sept. 7), reported finding Japs firing machine guns over the horribly stinking corpses of comrades dead three days...
Back in South Africa, he joined the anti-British Ossewa Brandwag. In 1937 he returned to Germany, learned to speak excellent German, grew a mustache like Hitler's, took the Nazi "leadership-training" course, became a Reichswehr parachutist...
...November, 30-year-old Sydney Leibbrandt and six of his Rebels went before the Transvaal Division of the South African Supreme Court charged with high treason. For a month Leibbrandt remained calm, arrogant, defiant. Then, last week, into the courtroom strode a bemedaled Nazi parachutist captured in the recent Middle East fighting. Believing his testimony would get his fellow Nazi "honorable" treatment as a prisoner of war, the soldier positively identified Leibbrandt, coolly told how they had trained together as parachutists in Germany...
Cracked from four sides and the air above them, the Hurs sought to hide by ducking under water and breathing through straws. Their ancient blunderbusses, hatchets and spears proved virtually useless. Even their jungle allies, 120° heat, snakes, mosquitoes and crocodiles, claimed few casualties. One parachutist sprained his ankle...