Word: paratroops
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Late last month the four Allied newsmen in Yugoslavia, including TIME'S Stoyan Pribichemch, were captured in a German paratroop raid on Marshal Tito's headquarters. Pribichemch alone escaped. Last week he cabled this account of his adventure...
...paratroop lieutenant survived to return and tell how the Germans "were machine-gunning us all the way down...
...Hugo Sperrle, veteran air general, but his command, too, is completely under Rundstedt's direction. The Germans unquestionably plan to use their own tough, mobile airborne troops to meet Allied airborne thrusts, and this phase of the campaign will be commanded by Lieut. General Kurt Student, professionally respected paratroop leader who planned and executed the Crete invasion...
...serving woman, who had noted his four stars and given him a double helping of everything, marveled: "Lumme, what an appetite! Like a paratroop second lieutenant...
...pack howitzer is the principal 75-mm. weapon. *Broken down, it is moved on the backs of mules. It is also the organic weapon for paratroop field artillery units. Dropped in seven loads, the 75-mm. can reach action seven minutes after crew and parts leave the plane...