Complete Equipment Schedule (CES) for the AMX10-RC laid out. Photo credit The Challenger
Japanese Battleship Haruna sunk in shallow water near Kure Japan - September 1945
Haruna was sunk by planes from USN Task Force 38 on July 28, 1945
LIFE Magazine Archives - George Silk Photographer
23 Mar 1951 – 2nd and 4th Ranger Companies, as part of the 187th ARCT, conducted a combat jump, Munson-Ni, Korea.
Operation Tomahawk was an airborne military operation by the 187th Regimental Combat Team (RCT) on 23 March 1951 at Munsan-ni as part of Operation Courageous in the Korean War. Operation Courageous was designed to trap large numbers of Chinese and North Korean troops between the Han and Imjin Rivers north of Seoul, opposite the South Korean I Corps.
Operation Tomahawk was the other half of the plan. This operation was designed to drop the 187th Airborne Regimental Combat Team about 30 kilometers (19 mi) north of the then-current front line. They did so, parachuting from over a hundred C-119 Flying Boxcar transport aircraft.
One hundred twenty C-119s and C-46s dropped 3,437 paratroopers of the 187th Regimental Combat Team, the 2nd and 4th Ranger Companies, and 12 officers and men of the 60th Indian Parachute Field Ambulance near Munsan-ni in the second-largest airborne operation of the war.
This photo, taken on May 31, 1945, in Okinawa, Japan, shows Lt Richard Jones of Los Angeles, California, feeding two Japanese children who were hiding in an abandoned tomb, 50 yards from the frontline. This true American hero survived the war. He passed away on March 23, 2004, at the age of 89.
