SS Parachute Assault - Yugoslavia 1944

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  @devilsadvocate7389 · 5 years ago

  Tito has SS and Stalin coming for his head and he outlived both.

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  @TheProtagonistDies · 5 years ago

  I wouldve stayed awake in history class if Mark was my teacher

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• MI

  @mikebrase5161 · 5 years ago (edited)

  I knew a guy who made this jump. He was shot in the foot. He was a Communications officer. He was captured at Nijmegen later in the war and sent to the US as a POW and came back to the US and became a citizen in the 50's.

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  @njopson9466 · 5 years ago

  My Dad was there! He was a communications (wireless) sergeant in the R.A.F. He parachuted into Yugoslavia  with Randolph Churchill and had to spend a night in a tent with him.  When I was a schoolboy in the 1950's he was always telling anyone who would listen about his experiences, but most of it went over my head. What I do recall was his contempt for Churchill's son, and how he and Tito had to stealthily circle round a tree to avoid being spotted by a German aircraft. He presumably was the wireless operator for the mission that rescued Tito. He died in 1993 and I only wish I had quizzed him more. I know that after Fitzroy McLean, who was his boss, published "Eastern Approaches" he corresponded with him, with, I believe some factual corrections. He never went back to Yugoslavia.

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• DO

  @DocLeQuack · 5 years ago

  Tito the man who Hitler and Stalin couldn’t kill.

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• DA

  @damyr · 5 years ago

  Been there, half of century later, in a different war. We also couldn't find Tito.

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• WA

  @wallaceralston2057 · 5 years ago

  As an ex-paratrooper I always marveled at how the German's seemed to dive out the doors of their aircraft. We trained to go feet first into the prop blast so as not to get the risers and lines twisted.

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  @NlGHTSKY · 5 years ago

  What a coincidence, an hour ago i was asking myself if SS paratroopers ever existed. I was amazed to see that YES they did. And just now Mark Felton posted a brand new video on them !

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• JO

  @jovicamateric7756 · 5 years ago

  I'm in Drvar right now visiting family and Tito's cave is a massive tourist attraction here. Its a pain to climb up there though.

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• NE

  @neveniusvondubowatz7705 · 5 years ago (edited)

  Dear Mark Felton. My grandma was there in the famous 6. Lička Division. She was a partisan nurse. I&apos;ve heard this story many many times in my childhood. It was bloody hell.<br><br>EDIT: The 6th Lička Division was part of the famous 1st Proletarian Corps. My grandfather was in the corps and met my grandmother in Drvar during the Skorzeny raid. He was wounded at the Sirmyan front in 1945., the Yugoslav partisan version of the Battle of the Bulge. Grandpa died in 1999. and grandma 2014.

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• MA

  @marks_sparks1 · 5 years ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F41714kTGTY&amp;t=310">05:10</a> Max Schmelling training at Stendal before Crete

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  @EndOfSmallSanctuary97 · 5 years ago

  &gt;tfw you&apos;re so feared by the enemy that they send multiple special forces units to take you out

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