The Man Who Tested Parachutes
The Man Who Tested Parachutes:
Charles Agate and the Development of Britain’s Airborne Forces for D-Day and Arnhem
English | 2025 | ISBN: 1036115860 | 244 Pages | EPUB | 4.4 MB
Charles Agate and the Development of Britain’s Airborne Forces for D-Day and Arnhem
English | 2025 | ISBN: 1036115860 | 244 Pages | EPUB | 4.4 MB
By 1940 the Allies had fallen behind the Axis powers in parachute design and research. Other than as a means of escape from a doomed aircraft, the British regarded parachuting as of little military value. All that changed when the Germans used paratroops, the Fallschirmjäger, to devastating effect in the invasion of the Low Countries, and Churchill demanded immediate action. The call went out for men who would be prepared to risk their lives testing parachutes, jumping and landing techniques.