-
sponsored the concept, and
Major General William C. Lee
organized the
first paratroop platoon. This led to the
Provisional Parachute Group, and then the United...
- the
Invasion of
Yugoslavia has not yet been ascertained. In that war,
paratroop raids had a
significant role in
almost all
major military operations....
-
Paratroop Command is a 1959
American war film
directed by
William Witney,
starring Richard Bakalyan, Ken
Lynch and Jack Hogan.
American International...
- The
Portuguese Paratroop Nurses (Enfermeiras Pára-quedistas in Portuguese) were a
group of 46
women that,
between 1961 and 1974 (the
duration of the Portuguese...
- The 1st
Parachute Army (German: 1. Fallschirm-Armee) was a
combined forces between airborne forces (Fallschirmjäger), armoured, and
mechanized infantry...
- than
three decades, the An-12 was the
standard medium-range
cargo and
paratroop transport aircraft of the
Soviet air forces. A
total of 1,248 aircraft...
- The
Ramcke Parachute Brigade was a
Luftwaffe paratroop (Fallschirmjäger)
brigade which saw
action in the
Mediterranean Theatre during World War II. The...
- mechanised, and ten were infantry, some
partly mechanised, as well as
their paratroop brigades which also
acted as
elite ****ault troops. The
brigades were ****igned...
- 1954, Har-Zion was
amongst a ten-man
squad from the
newly formed 890th
Paratroop Battalion, led by its
commander Ariel Sharon,
which carried out a raid...
-
roots that go back as far as 1952 when it was a
paratroop brigade. The 601 SFG
finds its
roots in a
paratroop brigade created in 1952. This unit was based...
