Shock troops seizing bridgehead at dawn, 1940

The new British Army in field exercises somewhere in England'. A force of over 40, 000 men were engaged in the field exercises, performed under the eyes of the Commander-in-Chief, General Sir Alan Brooke. A detachment of shock troops, armed with tommy guns, bombs and rifles, seizing a bridgehead after commandeering the car and chauffeur of Crown Price Olaf of Norway at the point of a revolver

Bombs Bridgehead Chauffeur Commandeering Detachment Exercises Manoeuvres Olaf Paras Paratroopers Revolver Seizing Somewhere Troopers

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