The paratroops were armed to the teeth.
The airport is in the hands of French paratroops.
They were Algerians, Moroccans, Africans, Vietnamese, along with a few elite French paratroops.
The paratroops descended on the village and took it in a matter of minutes.
German paratroops in the Hague and Rotterdam were now locked in bitter fighting as Dutch troops battled frantically to stop them capturing a series of strategic Bridges over the Rhine and Maas rivers.
