And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
The winter of 1941-42, they were so short of everything, including parachutes, that they resorted to dropping some agents (organizing partisans) from low and slow biplanes into deep drifts during night missions. I've no idea what the survival rate was. Even for the survivors of the drop, I doubt there was a high survival rate for the war.
The Russians had a difficult time working out the fine art of military jumpig.
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ReplyDeleteThe winter of 1941-42, they were so short of everything, including parachutes, that they resorted to dropping some agents (organizing partisans) from low and slow biplanes into deep drifts during night missions. I've no idea what the survival rate was. Even for the survivors of the drop, I doubt there was a high survival rate for the war.
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ReplyDeleteHey, at least one of those guys sliding off the wing was going "Wheeeeee"...
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