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Lieut. Colonel Serge Obolensky, top-ranking extraman of Manhattan, won a tribute from the World-Telegram's society editor. She reported that the durable charmer, "famed for his graceful waltzing, wasn't handicapped in the slightest by his heavy paratroop boots when he twirled around the St. Regis Roof the other evening...
Courage in India. In India, two native paratroop students got to worrying on the eve of their first jump, asked an officer: "From what height?" "Five hundred feet." "Nothing doing," they chorused, tried to bargain for 300, were told the chutes might not have time to open. "Oh, that's different," they sighed, "We get parachutes...
...cameraman of Moscow Strikes Back is Alexander Schneiderov, who, while shooting the sequence on the paratroop raid deep in enemy territory, was machine-gunned by German night fighter planes as he parachuted to earth. Despite his wound, he fought and photographed for 25 days, until the Red Army caught up with the paratroopers...
Some of the photography is spectacularly good. One of the 15 cameramen who made the film accompanied a paratroop division on an attack behind the German lines. It is all there, from the white-robed troops bailing out of their transport planes to the mopping up of their village objective. The shots of direct shell hits on Soviet tanks, of skiborne infantry dropping like dead birds before Nazi rifle and machine-gun fire, are as close to the front lines as movie-goers can safely...
Impulse. Over Camp Elliott, Calif., Lieut. William F. Schroeder, Navy medical officer, watched ten paratroopers leap from a low-flying plane, could not resist the urge to jump too. He was transferred to paratroop service...