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french foreign legion paratroops

By Kevin Lyles , Martin Windrow

Book information

Publisher
Osprey
ISBN
9780850456295, 0850456290
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
32 MB (33455656 bytes)
Series
Elite 006
Pages
64\64
Library
www.knigka.info
Time added
2010-02-18 13:16:04
Военные дисциплины;Оружие и военная техника;Osprey

Description

Решение о создании войск ВДВ принятое, весной 1948 года была продиктована требованием увеличения воздушно-десантных войск в Индокитае. Было создано 2 батальона парашютистов из состава иностранного Легиона. Выбор Легионеров вначале вызывал сомнение. Название: French Foreign Legion Paratroops Автор: Martin Windrow Год: 1985 The decision, in Spring 1948, to form two battalions of Foreign Legion paratroopers was prompted by the requirement for enlarged airborne forces in the First Indochina War (1946), and the healthy recruitment then employed by the Legion. There were some initial doubts. The Legion were known to be magnificent heavy infantry, but were felt by some to lack the flexibility and agility demanded by independent airborne operations. In the Legion itself there were some misgivings over the possible clash between the self-consciously exclusive para mentality, and the Legions own very marked ?sprit de corps. Over time, however, all these doubts evaporated with experience.

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