French Paras in 1940?

[Lt. Ketch]

Originally Posted by iCaMpWiThAWP

A lot more, first, paratroopers were trained to act independently, so, if you and 5 men miss the drop zone a mile, your task will still be the same, you need to know what to do if you are alone in the dark, go ask the men that jumped in normandy in june '44 if they all were in the LZ at the scheduled time, you also have to know, what if you start spinning?would you know how to stop?i wouldn't, military parachuting is harder than normal as you ar full of combat gear do i need more reasons for training paras?

Oh, I know about the paras in Normandy. A great read is Ambrose's "D-Day" where he interviewed many of them. I was just going off of the fact that France had mainly a "ground pounder" army and so may not think of those kinds of things. Really, I was just hung up on the image of the cusing frenchman falling through the air.