Paratrooper 'heard shots fired at platoon'

A paratrooper today recalled being ordered to take cover when he heard shots aimed towards his platoon before the main shootings on Bloody Sunday.

Paratrooper 'heard shots fired at platoon'

A paratrooper today recalled being ordered to take cover when he heard shots aimed towards his platoon before the main shootings on Bloody Sunday.

The unnamed paratrooper, identified only as Private 1917, was in 1 Para’s support company machine gun platoon.

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