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[WW2] Why did the German paratrooper jumping technique look so... Haphazard? American paratroopers fall maybe a few feet and then immediately feel that yank of their parachute. Germans and Soviets seem to fall several meters before it deploys. I presume anyone who knows about the subject recognizes?

by /u/Flowers818 in /r/AskHistorians

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