US Pcht combat jumps

[PRB]

Some recently de classified....nice to see the RVN SF recognized...MFF with Star.

http://www.globalsecurity.org/milita...orne-jumps.htm

[Papa Zero Three]

It's not complete by any means. I have a doc that was put together awhile back that has a lot of, if not all of them on it.

[PRB]

Good, post it

[Scimitar]

Ref: 24 Dec 1942

Day Mass low-level tactical personnel static-line jump. With a mission to destroy an enemy railroad bridge, of the 30 paratroopers to descend on the objective only six returned to friendly lines.

Balls. of. Steel.

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[Papa Zero Three]

I had to look for it for a bit, but here it is.

[Flagg]

Some interesting drops in there.

German Brandenbergers in Iran in 42/43. I've seen it referenced before, but there's not much content on the Brandenbergers in general or those jumps in particular.

Russian drops into France, Belgium, Netherlands in 1942. Never heard of those, and it has me scratching my head since the distances traveled would have been enormous for the inserting aircraft.

[Guymullins]

However, I am pretty sure that the record of Rhodesian jumps is missing quite a few.
Many RLI troops exceeded 50 operational jumps, with one chap, Des Archer of 1 Commando having 73 to his name. Often two ops jumps in a day were done by the same men and on rare occasions three. In total 14 000 operational jumps were recorded over the entire war.
Another detail which wasn't quite correct was the SA Paratroopers operational jump on May 4 , 1978 in operation Reindeer. 367 paratroopers jumped directly onto a SWAPO/PLAN brigade in a fortified base in Angola.

[Badger52]

Originally Posted by Papa Zero Three

I had to look for it for a bit, but here it is.

Thanks very much for that.

[1stindoor]

Originally Posted by Papa Zero Three

I had to look for it for a bit, but here it is.

Thanks....that was quite an interesting read.