FIVE parachutists jumped from an Allied plane and landed on the airfield of Medan. There, several Japanese had been waiting for them to make sure the guests didn't possess any arms. The five parachutists were then followed by the dispatch of several containers, half of which contained weapons while the rest had logistics inside. However, one of the parachutes failed to open. The commander's eyes were fixed on the sky as he anxiously hoped that the troubled container wouldn’t cause any problem with the Japanese. Soon afterwards, the container crashed into the ground.

"At the shock of landing, the container broke. There was an explosion of cigarettes. I breathed again," said the commander in his memoir, Challenge to Terror.

That commander was Raymond Westerling. He wasn't yet a captain in the squad, but an English officer, whose rank was a captain, was only a second-in-command. "Because of my special training and my nationality, in practice I was chief of the team," said Westerling.

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