Airborne forces
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Airborne forces are ground combat units carried by aircraft and airdropped into battle zones, typically by parachute drop. Parachute-qualified infantry and support personnel serving in airborne units
United States Air Force paratroopers from the 720th Special Tactics Group jumping from a C-130J Hercules aircraft during water rescue training off the Florida panhandle
Queen Elizabeth and Princess Elizabeth talking to paratroopers in preparation of D-Day, 19 May 1944
Paratroopers of the 3rd Parachute Battalion, 1st Airborne Division, inside an RAF Dakota (C-47) during the flight to Arnhem, 17 September 1944
Dwight D. Eisenhower speaks with American paratroopers of the 502nd Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division on the evening of 5 June 1944.
Operation Ladbroke
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Operation Ladbroke was a glider landing by British airborne troops during the Second World War near Syracuse, Sicily, that began on 9 July 1943 as part of Operation Husky, the Allied invasion of Sicil
One of the 1st Airlanding Brigade's jeeps being loaded aboard a Waco Hadrian glider
Men from the 1st Battalion, Border Regiment, on 9 July 1943, just prior to take off. Note the folding airborne bicycle.
Remains of the Lamba Doria coastal battery, captured by 250 British commandos after about two hours of fighting, in the night of 10 July 1943.