-
North Africa.
After mid-1944, Fallschirmjäger were no
longer trained as
paratroops owing to the
realities of the
strategic situation, but
retained the Fallschirmjäger...
- The
history of
French airborne units began in the
Interwar period when the
French Armed Forces formed specialized paratroopers units.
First formed in the...
- The
Ascari del
Cielo were the
first paratroopers of the
Italian Armed Forces. They all were born in
Libya and with Arab-Berber ethnicity. They constituted...
- anti-tank
scooter made in the 1950s from a
Vespa scooter for use with
French paratroops (troupes aéroportées, TAP).
Introduced in 1956 and
updated in 1959, the...
- was
renamed multiple times - to Air
Force Marine First Division, the
Paratroops Division, and the
Airborne Division -
until being designated as the 15th...
-
Operation Savannah) was the
first insertion of SOE
trained Free
French paratroops into German-occupied
France during World War II. This SOE mission, requested...
- the
group dropped paratroops near Ste-Mere-Eglise a few
hours before the main
landings on 6 June 1944. It also
dropped paratroops and
released gliders...
- background. As such, when he was
drafted in July 1942, he
volunteered for the
paratroops of the
United States Army,
after reading a Life
magazine article about...
-
Battle of
Crete was the
first occasion where Fallschirmjäger (German
paratroops) were used en m****e, the
first mainly airborne invasion in
military history...
-
fought between Norwegian Army
infantry forces and
German Fallschirmjäger
paratroops in mid-April 1940. As part of
their conquest of
Norway south of Trondheim...
