CRETE, GERMAN PARACHUTE TROOPS LAND ON THE ISLAND. MAY 1941. THE GERMAN BOMBING OF THE HERAKLION AERODROME, NEAR CANDIA WAS FOLLOWED BY GROUND STRAFING BY MESSERSCHMITTS. WHILE THESE FIGHTERS PATROLLED THE BOMBED AREA, TROOP-CARRYING AIRCRAFT FOLLOWED IN, ESCORTED BY BOMBERS. PARACHUTE TROOPS, OF WHOM 60 TO 70 PERCENT WERE DESTROYED BEFORE REACHING THE GROUND, WERE THEN DROPPED. - German parachute troops descending. This picture shows clearly the usual formation of three dropping planes. The four parachutes in clusters are carrying heavy articles such as machine guns in rubber-tyred trucks, fi
CRETE, GERMAN PARACHUTE TROOPS LAND ON THE ISLAND. MAY 1941. THE GERMAN BOMBING OF THE HERAKLION AERODROME, NEAR CANDIA WAS FOLLOWED BY GROUND STRAFING BY MESSERSCHMITTS. WHILE THESE FIGHTERS PATROLLED THE BOMBED AREA, TROOP-CARRYING AIRCRAFT FOLLOWED IN, ESCORTED BY BOMBERS. PARACHUTE TROOPS, OF WHOM 60 TO 70 PERCENT WERE DESTROYED BEFORE REACHING THE GROUND, WERE THEN DROPPED. - German parachute troops descending. This picture shows clearly the usual formation of three dropping planes. The four parachutes in clusters are carrying heavy articles such as machine guns in rubber-tyred trucks, field guns, motorcycles and small motor vehicles. Note the white parachute of the leader
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