When and where were the first paratroopers use?

Answer 1

Surprisingly paratroopers were first thought of before airplanes or even parachutes were even invented. One of the first men to come up with the idea of dropping men from the sky was Benjamin Franklin. "Where is the prince who can afford so to cover his country with troops for its defence [SIC], so that ten thousand men descending from the clouds might not, in many places, do an infinite deal of mischief before a force could be brought together to repel them?"(1) Benjamin Franklin 1784. Even though Benjamin was a great inventor, this idea was never fully used until World War Two. In World War Two the Germans, Russians, and the French had created entire Regiments of the people. However for America and Brittan it took the great mind of Winston church hill to state "We ought to have a corps of at least 5,000 parachute troops… I hear something is being done already to form such a corps but only, I believe, on a very small scale. Advantage must be taken of the summer to train these forces who can none the less play their part meanwhile as shock troops in home defence [SIC]."(2) In 19?? (find out) These two men influenced the world with simple words.

Paratroopers have a fairly recent yet fascinating history. The Germans were the first country to create an actual parachute regiment. In 1935 they used Junkers 52s as the planes to drop the troops. The Germans approached this technique as a form of Lightning Warfare "Blitzkrieg," Though the Germans were the first to create a regiment of Paratroopers the Russians were the first to use them. In 1936 the Russians sent 1,200 men by parachute to reinforce the lines the enemies were even impressed by their maneuvers. The Russians named these troops "Locust Warriors," Not to be underdone the Germans used them to attack a fortress in Norway on March 12, 1938, and on May 1940 they were dropped to capture several air basses in Oslo and Stavanger. This was the first time they were used to attack a target. By this time France created a whole Regiment because of the success this style of combat was having. However it was too late for them they were out of the war almost as soon as the Regiment was created. On the other hand America and Brittan were very skeptical of the Paratroopers. Fortunately Major William Lee headed the first American Platoon of paratroopers in 1940. Finally after several demonstrations America and Brittan both created groups of paratroopers about 9,000 strong. For these warriors they created a special camp called Fort Benning, in Georgia. This camp had a parachute school where they would learn to jump. This is only a glimpse of the paratroopers around the World War Two.

Its fairly hard to actually make an exact point on when they started. It all depends on what form of development your talking about.