Re: Dropships vs. Dropcaps

Panama a brigade (hot war)

----- Original Message ----- 
From: Alan and Carmel Brain <aebrain@webone.com.au>
To: <gzg-l@csua.berkeley.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, June 12, 2002 3:06 AM
Subject: Re: Dropships vs. Dropcaps

> ----- Original Message ----- 
> > When exactly was the last major parachute operation? and why?
> 
> Depends what you mean by "Major".
> 
> Candidates:
> Anglo-French at Suez, 1956 (Multi-Divisional in a Hot War)
> Belgians in the Congo, 60's (Battalion in a Hot War)
> Warsaw Pact in Czechoslovakia, 1967 (Multi-Divisional, no hostile
fire)
> 
> Turkey in Cyprus?
> Indonesia in East Timor, 1972 (Battalion, some resistance)
> Russia in Afghanistan 1980 (Regimental, no hostile fire)
> 
> Grenada maybe?
> 
> 
>