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Show Parachutist Strategy Dates From Franklin WASHINGTON, D. C Benjamin Franklin had the idea of parachute troops back in 1783. "The Command and General Staff School Military Review" prints in its current issue the following excerpt ex-cerpt from volume nine of Franklin's Frank-lin's writings: "Five thousand balloons, capable of raising two men each, could not cost more than five ships of the line; and where is the prince who can afford so to cover his country with troops for its defense as that 10,000 men descending from the clouds might not in many places do an infinite deal of mischief before be-fore a force could be brought together to-gether to repel them?" |
