After a search I cant find any use of armor in airborne
assaults.I cant even find the carrier being used.
The tetrach and the locust were both designed for
airborne/glider assualts, but the Waco and Horsa
gliders had a miserable fault of breaking apart when
landing with near maxiumn loads destroying/or making
unserviceable its load. There is some mention of the
the Jeep and the 37mm anti tank gun being use in
the Arhemn operation,although few made it.
After WWll the only armor other than the locust that
was light enough to be glider dropped was the Caffee,
but by that time gliders had been dropped as way of
operational delivery of armor.
It was the glider that was the bust, the locust
went out of service in 1947.Korea was a bad location
for any type of glider operation
Patrick
My sources: Yahoo and Google Searchs
Airborne armored assualts.
Cmh(Center for militart History) US. Airborne armored assualts
Should anyone have Any Information on this I welcome
your comments.
Last edited by Ponysoldier; 06-08-06 at 10:05.
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