Did German Paratroops have jeeps?

[Leif]

Where there any big German airborne operations where they would drop kubelwagons out of airplanes, or any other heavy equipment for that matter?


-Leif

[fergmacleod]

PAK anti-tank guns were dropped under clusters of 'chutes during the Crete invasion, while kettenkrads and motorcycles were air-landed from transport aircraft.

It seems like I read somewhere that experiments were made in jumping donkeys and air-landing ponies, both very unsucessfull.

Fergus.

[Ralph A]

Have you guys seen...

...the footage of the experiments done in regards to parachuting buildings from airplanes? There's this great reel of a test in which some sort of (small; about 10x10') structure is dropped from a tall platform. The thing plummets earthward, then fires a series of retro rockets, propelling the building back up about 40 or 50 feet. Then the rockets burn out and the structure falls to the ground and smashes itself to flinders.

Hilarious.

I think it's from an old reel called "Secret Weapons of World War II" or something like that.