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Folks I would like to chime in on this topic and I think it's very important. The youth of today are learning about history through Maps! I just recently assisted the Bedford St. Martins Publishing Company in the design and structure of their new college textbooks and what we have found is that few ...

Thanks for the reply Christoph. An 8 day jump school by todays standard wouldn't cut it, but what do you really need to know right? The first jump I made I was scared too but my thinking is they didn't get too many practice jumps in. You have to admit that with a combat jump in an Alpine unit you we...

I read through this whole thread and found the comments from FJ6(?) and Achilles to be most interesting. I thought I would chime in. First off no mention was made about the BOB second episode where the Artillery battery was assaulted. Yes it was mentioned but what was overlooked was the fact that th...

I've been reading James Lucas' books "Alpine Elite" and "Storming Eagles" and I came across a unit of Gebirgsjaeger that jumped with the Fallschirmjaeger west of Hundalen in Norway. This isn't mentioned in "Storming Eagles" and although the Fallschirmjaeger unit is ment...