Paratroopers History  Paratroopers are airborne soldiers trained
to parachute into enemy territory/situations and then to
undertake land force tasks. Paratroopers are a relatively new
addition to the armed forces and the possibility of using troops
in this way was mooted from the early days of the Air Force but
did not actually happen until some years later. It is thought
that the French did the first military parachute jump in 1915
and that the first combat jump was probably made by the Italians
in 1918.  The idea of paratroopers was considered during the
First World War but paratroopers did not really appear until the
1930s when the Russians parachuted troops into manoeuvres as a
test. However, it was Germany and England that was to use
paratroopers most during the Second World War. The Germans, for
example, had a parachute regiment as early as 1935 and their
regiments gained combat experience during the Spanish Civil War.
England, however, had no formal regiment close to the beginning
of the Second World W