Re: Dropships vs. Dropcaps

--- John Sowerby <sowerbyj@fiu.edu> wrote:
> 
> >When exactly was the last major parachute
> operation? and why?
> 
> I can remember reading in I think Westmoreland's
> memoirs that there was an 
> actual drop made in the Vietnam War, and I know
> there were a few operations 
> by the French in Vietnam in the 1950's.

The last brigade-sized (plus Rangers) combat drop that
I know of was conducted in 1989 by a brigade of the
82nd Airborne Division into Panama.  Why?  To secure
airfields to airland the rest of the division.

HOWEVER, I will note that since 1945, no airborne
operations have been conducted against a nation that
had anything resembling a real air defense capability.

John

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