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French Foreign Legion Paratroops
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Artikel-Nr:
9780850456295
Veröffentl:
1985
Erscheinungsdatum:
26.09.1985
Seiten:
64
Autor:
Martin Windrow
Gewicht:
336 g
Format:
250x185x7 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Martin Windrow is series editor at Osprey and an authority on the post-war French Army, particularly the Foreign Legion. He is the author of the critically acclaimed The Last Valley: Dien Bien Phu and the French Defeat in Vietnam (2004).
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 Legion's own very marked ésprit de corps. Over time, however, all these doubts evaporated with experience.
The Indochina War 1946-54 · Dien Bien Phu · The Algerian War 1954-62 · Para-Commandos · The Plates