Word: paratroopers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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...
...Britain two chaplains, one Catholic and one Protestant, qualified as paratroopers. They volunteered for training so that they could accompany men of their paratroop brigade when it goes into action...