Word: paratroopers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Force was born during a visit by General George Catlett Marshall to Prime Minister Churchill at Chequers in 1942, and a glamorous career was laid out for it. It was to be used in a suicide raid on hydroelectric plants in Norway. Later its mission was changed to simultaneous paratroop raids on key power plants scattered through Europe. Another gleam in the planners' eyes: a parachute raid on Berchtesgaden to kill Adolf Hitler...
...wore on, the beleaguered paratroops, under merciless enemy pressure, began to steal glum looks at their watches. At 12:14 a weary officer muttered: "They'll never make it now." At that moment, through the crash and rattle of gunfire and mortar shells, came a distant skirling of bagpipes, the Commandos' signal. A paratroop bugler answered with "Defaulters,"* indicating that the road immediately ahead had Germans on it, and that the first Commando-men should go around them...
...Payoff. At exactly 12:17½ a tall, slim officer with a rifle slung over one shoulder scrambled up the bank of the Caen Canal. Behind him came a sweating, 21-year-old Glasgow piper, behind the piper a long line of grim-bereted Commando troops. The paratroop brigadier came up to shake Lord Lovat's hand. Their greeting was brief and British...
Late last month the four Allied newsmen in Yugoslavia, including TIME'S Stoyan Pribichemch, were captured in a German paratroop raid on Marshal Tito's headquarters. Pribichemch alone escaped. Last week he cabled this account of his adventure...
...paratroop lieutenant survived to return and tell how the Germans "were machine-gunning us all the way down...