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Tried this on another forum but it's really bugging me so:
Steven Zaloga's 'Red Army Handbook' has a shot of Soviet paratroops using 2 chutes per man but no explanation. Anyone got any idea why they would try this? They look like full size chutes, I would have thought that would lead to more, dangerous, air-time?
It's not entirely clear whether the picture is in training or from the disastrous drop on the Dnieper in '43, can't find another example on the web.
Cheers,
Adam.
(Meant to put this in 'Russia at war' Forum but seem to have ballsed that up, could someone kindly move it there, cheers.)
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