Despite vigorously groping about in the darkness, he could find no other members of his unit. His only weapons consisted of a Sauer 38H pistol and a standard-issue gravity knife. ![]() He wore his “bone bag” jump smock, abbreviated paratrooper helmet, and scant personal equipment, but his MP40 submachine gun was lost someplace in a weapons canister. Neumann, like all German Fallschirmjagers, hit the ground naked. Everything else seemed to be random, disorganized, flawed, or broken. That was, however, the only thing about this mission that had gone as intended. ![]() He had flown more than 300 miles aboard a Junkers JU-52 transport plane and hit the drop zone at dusk, as planned. It was the evening of July 13, 1943, and Leutnant Otto Neumann was lost.
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