CHAD: CONGO-KINSHASA TRAINED CHAD PARATROOPERS DEMONSTRATE THEIR SKILL TO PRESIDENT TOMBALBAYE

Record ID: 1079252

  • Title: CHAD: CONGO-KINSHASA TRAINED CHAD PARATROOPERS DEMONSTRATE THEIR SKILL TO PRESIDENT TOMBALBAYE
  • Date: 29th October 1970
  • Summary: 1. GV Ext. Presidential residence, Fort Lamy 0.05 2. SV Int. President Tombalbaye receives instructors 0.12 3. GV Pan ext. instructors lined up 0.16 4. MV Three instructors 0.19 5. SV Women cadets 0.21 6. MV President meets instructors 0.26 7. MV President awards medals (2 shots) 0.35 8. SLV President and guests on dais with Major Tshikewa reporting 0.40 9. MV Major speaks 0.43 10. SV Tombalbaye on dais 0.45 11. GV Ceremony 0.46 12. SV Major explains training points on map 0.51 13. SV Another angle ditto 0.53 14. SV Para demonstrates break-fall 1.00 15. MV Guests applaud 1.01 16. Ground to Air mass parachute drop 1.10 17. LV Parachutist land 1.14 18. SV Another lands 1.17 19. SV Men away, carrying folded chute (2 shots) 1.23 20. MV President and others 1.25 21. SV Detachment of troops marching past 1.30 22. GV Detachment halts 1.32 23. MV Pan ditto leader forward reports to President 1.42 24. GV Saluting President 1.47 25. MV President shakes hands with officers 1.50 Initials BB/JF/OS/354 BB/JF/OS/444 Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 12th November 1970 13:00
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  • Location: FORT LAMY, CHAD
  • Country: Chad
  • Reuters ID: LVABZ07YN4GYTJ265DZ7MAYBVHCT
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