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Which air minister said (before WW2) that parachute troops are just a circus?
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In Chapter 32, Airborne Forces of Liddell Hart (ed), The Soviet Army, Kurt Student says, after noting the abscence of paratroop involvment in the invasion of Poland (p. 378), that
`Parachute troops are just a circus,' one of the Western air ministers
remarked.
Who was this minister? A quick google search does not turn up anything.
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In Chapter 32, Airborne Forces of Liddell Hart (ed), The Soviet Army, Kurt Student says, after noting the abscence of paratroop involvment in the invasion of Poland (p. 378), that
`Parachute troops are just a circus,' one of the Western air ministers
remarked.
Who was this minister? A quick google search does not turn up anything.
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In Chapter 32, Airborne Forces of Liddell Hart (ed), The Soviet Army, Kurt Student says, after noting the abscence of paratroop involvment in the invasion of Poland (p. 378), that
`Parachute troops are just a circus,' one of the Western air ministers
remarked.
Who was this minister? A quick google search does not turn up anything.
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In Chapter 32, Airborne Forces of Liddell Hart (ed), The Soviet Army, Kurt Student says, after noting the abscence of paratroop involvment in the invasion of Poland (p. 378), that
`Parachute troops are just a circus,' one of the Western air ministers
remarked.
Who was this minister? A quick google search does not turn up anything.
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this quote wasn't by ONE minister, it was by the whole French General Staff.
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The French military then dabbled briefly with the concept, creating two companies of paratroopers in 1936, but the experiment was dismissed by the French General Staff as “a circus act†and abolished before the war started.
Piehl, Hauptmann. Ganze Männer. Verlagshaus Bong & Co. Leipzig. 1943. p. 41
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Clarification: the minister was Pierre Cot.
Ganze Männer, p. 41:
Nach Angabe des ehemaligen französischen Luftfahrtministers P. Cot
wurden sie auf Veranlassung des Generalstabes als eine
,,Zirkusangelegenheit'' abgelehnt und aufgelöst.
(Google)
According to the former French Air Ministry Minister P. Cot, they were
rejected and dissolved as a "circus matter" at the instigation of the
General Staff.
So perhaps not completely clear who said it was a circus.
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The French military then dabbled briefly with the concept, creating two companies of paratroopers in 1936, but the experiment was dismissed by the French General Staff as “a circus act†and abolished before the war started.
Piehl, Hauptmann. Ganze Männer. Verlagshaus Bong & Co. Leipzig. 1943. p. 41
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The French military then dabbled briefly with the concept, creating two companies of paratroopers in 1936, but the experiment was dismissed by the French General Staff as “a circus act†and abolished before the war started.
Piehl, Hauptmann. Ganze Männer. Verlagshaus Bong & Co. Leipzig. 1943. p. 41
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The French military then dabbled briefly with the concept, creating two companies of paratroopers in 1936, but the experiment was dismissed by the French General Staff as “a circus act†and abolished before the war started.
Piehl, Hauptmann. Ganze Männer. Verlagshaus Bong & Co. Leipzig. 1943. p. 41
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The French military then dabbled briefly with the concept, creating two companies of paratroopers in 1936, but the experiment was dismissed by the French General Staff as “a circus act†and abolished before the war started.
Piehl, Hauptmann. Ganze Männer. Verlagshaus Bong & Co. Leipzig. 1943. p. 41
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Clarification: the minister was Pierre Cot.
Ganze Männer, p. 41:
Nach Angabe des ehemaligen französischen Luftfahrtministers P. Cot
wurden sie auf Veranlassung des Generalstabes als eine
,,Zirkusangelegenheit'' abgelehnt und aufgelöst.
(Google)
According to the former French Air Ministry Minister P. Cot, they were
rejected and dissolved as a "circus matter" at the instigation of the
General Staff.
So perhaps not completely clear who said it was a circus.
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Clarification: the minister was Pierre Cot.
Ganze Männer, p. 41:
Nach Angabe des ehemaligen französischen Luftfahrtministers P. Cot
wurden sie auf Veranlassung des Generalstabes als eine
,,Zirkusangelegenheit'' abgelehnt und aufgelöst.
(Google)
According to the former French Air Ministry Minister P. Cot, they were
rejected and dissolved as a "circus matter" at the instigation of the
General Staff.
So perhaps not completely clear who said it was a circus.
answered 15 mins ago
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Clarification: the minister was Pierre Cot.
Ganze Männer, p. 41:
Nach Angabe des ehemaligen französischen Luftfahrtministers P. Cot
wurden sie auf Veranlassung des Generalstabes als eine
,,Zirkusangelegenheit'' abgelehnt und aufgelöst.
(Google)
According to the former French Air Ministry Minister P. Cot, they were
rejected and dissolved as a "circus matter" at the instigation of the
General Staff.
So perhaps not completely clear who said it was a circus.
answered 15 mins ago
Tomas By
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Clarification: the minister was Pierre Cot.
Ganze Männer, p. 41:
Nach Angabe des ehemaligen französischen Luftfahrtministers P. Cot
wurden sie auf Veranlassung des Generalstabes als eine
,,Zirkusangelegenheit'' abgelehnt und aufgelöst.
(Google)
According to the former French Air Ministry Minister P. Cot, they were
rejected and dissolved as a "circus matter" at the instigation of the
General Staff.
So perhaps not completely clear who said it was a circus.
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