"I got in on the ground floor of American jump-fighting early last summer. Uncle Sam was quick to take the hint when the Nazi legions goose-stepped into the Low-lands and France behind dozens of dare-devil 'falschirmjager' - as German parachutists are called, who had already seized strategic bridges and forts... I happen to be the first man to volunteer when [the Army] recently decided to go in for jump-fighters, the first one to bail out of an airplane... As I write, nearly 400 selected volunteers are pouring into our battalion from infantry regiments scattered across the country. If these men turn out to be anything like the pioneers, my money is on the American parachute troops right now."
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