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     The instruction also related to the learning of enemy equipment: aviation, armoured tanks, vehicles of all types, recognition of the German units, ranks, emblems of unit, its order of battle, etc.

"We learned how to drive all types of vehicles, apart from cars, that we could have to use, such as trucks, bus, motor bikes (not very current knowledge at the time), etc"
 

     Training also included sabotage, handling of all kinds of explosives, grenades, and other "assorted tricks". There were also boxing matches to test combativeness.

     Topography and orientation were in addition included in the programme. The objective was to know how to send the co-ordinates of future grounds, being able to be used for various insertions of men and materials and even to mark out a ground for the night landing of liaison planes, such as the Lysander.

 

1st jump with detachable kit bag - Ringway 1944 Click on

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     Among the most important subjects, especially for the "radios", were to learn how to code and to decipher the messages.

     An essential element of this training was a need to be familiar with the radio sets to be used on missions. It was also necessary to know to lay out the antenna (a simple electric wire but made out of steel from 6 to approximately 8 meters), which it was necessary to lay out in various methods, either in a straight line, or a V, or L, etc, this enabled to the best possible reception according to the location of the radio operator. These radio sets were already very powerful, since radio connections to and from London-Saigon had been carried out.

     These radio sets held in suitcases of ordinary appearance of civil style, and functioned only in "C-W communication", which means in Morse.

     The parachute training took one week at the famous British Parachute school of Ringway, near Manchester.