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SKY Leather covered SKY
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TITII the great wave of
W German invasion moving
swiftly nearer, everyone ought to understand the chances of enemy air invasion, and how it will be dealt with.
The Germans have three or four full regiments of para- chutists. The men are carried not in. warplanes but in big Junkers transports.
man
The parachute trooper is a for physicul picked strength and health, and for needs high
He courage. courage, for losses, even in peacetime, manœuvres, aver- aged about 20 per cent, per annum. Yet the Germans, are brave men-there were never any gaps in recruiting for this branch of service.
Parachute jumping involves considerable danger. Many of the world's most famous parn- chutists have been killed- John Tranum is a famous example.
Getting to earth unloaded after a parachute descent is equal to a leap from a 12-foot wall. Loaded as they are, it might equal a jump from a 17-foot wall.
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OTHER risks include delay
in opening the parachute --which means hitting the earth and exploding like a bomb of being dragged through trees or coming down in water. A well-trained man, however, by swinging in a certain way as he descends, can direct his descent to some considerable extent to avoid obstacles below,
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Before parachutists set out they maneuvre in country similar to that they mean to attack. They study for many hours perfect models, curately built to scale, of that country, showing woods, towns, villages, rivers and so on. This is exactly what the parachutists see from the air, appearing on about the same scale.
The parachute man's task, on landing, is exactly set out for him.
para- On the battlefield chutists.sometimes risk jump-
FUNNY SIDE UP
ing down to attack strong enemy posts. The first of the Liege forts to fall was assault- ed in this way. Parachutists drified down right beneath the walls and flung bombs through the ventilator-shafts and gun-ports, crouching against the outside of the walls, where they were im- mune from the defenders' fire.
WHAT chances would para- chutists have of operating Well-for once, in Britain?
I would not fancy their pro- spects.
It is one thing to make an aerial invasion where you have troops with tanks and lorries thundering towards you to connect up a solid line, and aircraft holding the skies overhead, as happened in Hol- land and Belgium, where the defence air forces were over- whelmed at the start; In Britain the tale is very dif- ferent.
So long as the British Navy exists we hold the Ditch be- tween the Continent and Eng- land, and communications are-
for any impossible
para- chutists or air invaders who land here. Moreover, I do not believe England has a strong German Fifth Column, on whose help skying-invaders are bound to rely.
But if a landing were made If a few hundred-Germans managed to get their feet to English ground-what then?
This is not the Low Coun trics, where a few handfuls of were obsolete warplanes amashed down by the Luft- before parachuting waffe operations began We hold the English skles, and are likely to do so for some time to come.
The Germans are reckless of life--other people's and their own. So most probably the time will come when aerial invasion of Britain will be attempted. It will not suc- coed; and every Boche who floats down towards an Eng- lish meadow will be one man in the more flung away
bid for world domination.
By Abner Dean
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steel helmet.
Web parachute harness.
Right hand on release grip. of para- Chute.
Gas
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Parachute pack
Sub calibre
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Iron rations
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All gear is so attached that it cannot whirl loose
free fall.
ARE YOU SURE?
Answers on this. Page.
1. Caporetto, whence the Ilalians were driven in flight in the battle of 1917, is a
(a) river, (b) town, (e) small mountain, (d) province.
Did the Italians then lose more or fewer guns than the Allies re- ccally lost in Belgium:?
2. The Briiki Empire ocuples nearly.
one-sixteenth, one-eighth, one quarter, one half
of the land surface of the earth. Give figures.
3. What horse won the Derby week? What were second and
thirdi
*. is an Eskimo's hair naturally ́straight or emniy?
5. In what month of 1588 was the bank Armada scattered?
6. A troglodyte is
(a) kind of frog, (b) surveyor's instrument. (c) cave-dweller.
The blazest Industry of the United States is the manufacture of (a) food, (b) machinery, (c) textiles, fdi radio,
8. Who are the members of this War Cabinet? Give the Chrisllan name of each.
9. What is a dan-laying vessel? 10. Ants are divided into three classes. What are they?
wash
11. Would you use a didie to fa) cut the lawn,
(b) dishes. Te) scrub floors, (d) clear a ditch, fel thatch a roof.
12. What is the origin and mean- ing of the word admiral?
13. What is Portugal, celebrating this year? Who is representing King Georsof
PA14. How many
(a) barrels, (b) gallons in a butt DJ ale? VARA
16. What is the colour of the uniform worn by the W.V.S.T
17. Ballistics deal with
(a) motion of projectiles, (b) an- cient weights, (c) ballast arrange- ments in ships.
18. Who Was Squeers?
Mr. Wackford
10. A selenograph is a (0) weighing machine, (b). range-finder, (c) sales chari, (a) map of the moon, (e) chart of the
oceans,
20. Where is Banana Island, and”
to whom does it belong?
ANSWERS
1. Town. 2,000 more.
2. Nearly one-quneler. The land surface of the earth is 52,500,000 square miles; that of the Empire is 12,000,000..
3. Pont l'Evepue;
Lighthouse 11.
on
4. Straight.
Turkhan;
the
6. July. Sighted off Flymouth
20th. Fighting up Channe
lasted till the 30th, when the Spaniards led north from Nieuport.
6. Cuve-dweller.
7. Muchinery.
8. Winston Churchill, Lord Hali-. fax (Edward F. L. Wood), Clement Attlee, Arthur Greenwood, Neville Chamberlain
9. Ship that lays buoys, 10. Queens; males, workers. 11. Clear a ditch. It is a sharp irlangulor spade,
12. From the Arable word Amiral, meaning Emir (Emperor) of the
500,
23. 800th
anniversary of the foundation of the State, Duke of Kent, Ma 14. 3 barrola. 108 gallons.
15. Georgo. Lansbury, Caroline, wife of George II C
16, Olive green with embroidered TShadde..
45/Who prieinated the Serpen- Line Lido: which was opened ten: FARZ WED: 10-say?! For whom was the Armentive-first-inid out?a
THE MEN BEHIND THE BREN
By F. C. H. SALUSBURY
IMAGINE yourself crouch- ing in what, was the par- four of A typically snug French house.
The snout of your Bren gun pokes through the window-or, rather, the gap that was left when a bomb wrenched out the frame, sent it crashing backwards in an explosion of glass and shook the
whole housa to pieces.
You have piled up as much of Madame's furniture as you can find, and backed the lot with the bedding which descended from the noor above. It gives only a falso sense of security, but it makes a Cosy nest and may stop small splinters.
Madame'a plano has been toppled against one wall, with its back ripped open. A fantastic fate has fung a porcelain ornament from the mantelpiece to the seat of the music stool. There it stands, quite unharmed, a group of fat cupids wreathed with pink roses.
And over all this chaos, which is buoyantly surveyed by a large, coloured photograph of monsfour, madame and their five children, there lies a thick grey dust.
You and your section are infantry. The limelight has not been thrown on you as much as on the Royal Air Force. which is doing auch magnif cent work But your experiences in the past few days have made old soldiers of you.
So you suggio closer against the stock of your Bren gun, and you gazo with concentration up the village Birret. You are as tired as Hell-and Hell must be very weary these days,
They have put you here and there, advanced and withdrawn you, as the "gap in the region-about-Arras closed
and opened and closed again.
You have not the remotest idea of what is happening elsewhere, or how the general battle is going. You only know you would give a year's pay for a night's undisturbed sleep and a good blow-out of steak and chips. and onions
Poor old "Happy" is no longer with you to grouse about his food. He got his packet near Louvain. A grenado that came lobbing over Just like a cricket ball. Yes, old "Happy" was a good lad,
Your nip is aching again, and you shift slightly.
Wants a blinking cushion, I shouldn't wonder!" says someone, looking round from his rifle.
"Anyone got any chocolate?" says someone else.
Oh, yes, sir; certainly, sir!" comes a mincing reply from behind madame's best chair. “And what sort would you laiko--all soft centres? By all means, alt.”
*
A Agure stumbles in through the doorway. It is a young subaltern, your platoon commander.
Everything all right, sergeant?"- ho says Bedded down nicely. 1 see. Good. Well, you'll have to hang on here until you're blown to glory.
"Any issue of wings, air, when we're' angels?" says the section wit
me.
"or until you get the signal from Theres a picture à dislike par- ticularly in the room where I am, chuck it out of the window if you're to mova. Keep an eye on the window Okay?"
Yes, kir."
"Right you are, then."
1
cat.
As the subaltern departs, a deserted by humanity and now cam piately wild, stalks. past the window. Its eyes are blazing. It is pure black
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"They're of says the irrepressible wit, and licks his grimy, cracked lips, Hand; me, my binoculars, will you Perkins?"
"You tighten your Anger on the trigger. At the back of your mind you are wondering just what is the picture which your subaltern dislikes so much. Then a piece of metal smacks 'into the room over your head, and makes nudsense of monsieur's photographic atnile.
17. Mation of projectiles, 18. The schoolmaster in Dickens's Nicholas Nickleby.............. ***19, Map of the moon. 2:20, Off Blerra Leone,
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