We know because Operation Market-Garden (the airborne invasion of Holland in September 1944) was a failure, and Eisenhower did accept the blame without any excuses.

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Wesley's husband, Larry, who's with the 82nd Airborne Division, told her about his patrols as part of Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan.

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The reader can almost hear the parachute canopies cracking open as Operation Castor begins on November 20th 1953, when the airborne elite of the French colonial army was first parachuted into the valley of Dien Bien Phu.

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The flights are part of "Operation Ice Bridge, " a six-year plan described as the largest ever airborne survey of ice at Earth's poles.

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