The 187th led the second and last parachute assault in Korea on 23 March 1951(Operation Tomahawk).

His company, the 3rd Platoon, was assigned to execute a parachute assault on the village.

Moreover, it has not conducted a parachute assault using an entire division since World War II; it could rely on special forces for that mission.

The only operation they had been involved in was a company sized parachute assault on the Greek island of Kos.

Ivan's been laying the things since he took the island by parachute assault two weeks ago.

On 5 November 1956, the 3rd Battalion conducted what would become the last British battalion sized parachute assault.

It replaced the earlier sea-based Operation Parthenon with a parachute assault launched from Kenya.

This was the first and last British operational parachute assault since World War II.

They later supported the American parachute assault against the small island that had been the scene of the American surrender three years earlier.

In North Africa each of the brigade's three parachute battalions took part in separate parachute assaults.