来自MSN2 个月
US Airborne Rangers parachute in to seize a Pacific airbase, preparing for war with China
The German Fallschirmjager paratroops, who pioneered parachute-borne airfield seizures during World War II, suffered 44 per cent casualties capturing Allied air bases in Crete in 1941 and ...
BBC5 年
Battle of Arnhem: Mass parachute drop marks WW2 assault
A mass parachute drop has taken place in the Netherlands to mark the 75th anniversary of Operation Market Garden in World War Two. The Prince of Wales joined veterans at the commemorations to the ...
BBC5 年
Battle of Arnhem: Mass parachute drop marks WW2 assault
A mass parachute drop has taken place in the Netherlands to mark the 75th anniversary of Operation Market Garden in World War Two. The Prince of Wales joined veterans at the commemorations to the ...
BBC5 年
German parachute silk
This small piece of fabric is silk from a German parachute from World War II. During the war, the owner’s mother saw an aeroplane crash in the field just beyond their cottage and a ...
来自MSN1 个月
Glasgow's 'Parachuting Padre' who went behind enemy lines with the SAS during WW2
Reverend Fraser McLuskey, dubbed the 'Parachuting Padre', dropped deep behind enemy lines with the 1st SAS Regiment. Rev McLuskey, who became chaplain to the University of Glasgow in 1939 ...