A Brief History of Paratroopers in World War II – WETSU Company

It was a wild idea from Lewis H. Brereton. Drop-in American troops to the German city of Metz by way of a parachute from a bomber plane. World War I was in its final days and Lieutenant Colonel Brereton brought his idea to Brig. General Billy Mitchell. Up until then, this idea of dropping in troops from the sky was som

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Many books have been written about military parachuting, in particular about famous parachute operations like Crete and Arnhem in the Second World War

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