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Operation Northern Delay: On March 26, 2003, during the 2003 invasion of Iraq, 1,000 paratroopers or “Sky Soldiers” from the 173rd Airborne Brigade jumped into Bashur, Iraq as part of Operation Northern Delay. Operation Northern Delay was the last large-scale combat parachute operation conducted by the U.S. military since Operation Just Cause in 1989. The operation was the first strategic brigade airdrop using C-17 aircraft in formation, integrating a conventional Army airborne brigade within the 10th Special Forces Group, and integrating an armored battalion into an airborne operation.

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via: U.S. Pacific Air Forces · Maj. Thomas C. Griffin (right), one of five surviving members of the famous Doolittle Raiders, chats with crew members of the Miss Hap B-25 bomber at the National Museum of the United States Air Force April 17, 2012. Griffin and other Raiders are at the museum this week for the 70th anniversary of the famous Doolittle Raid. On April 18, 1942, 80 airmen took off in B-25 bombers from the aircraft carrier Hornet on a top-secret mission to bomb Japan. Some 20 B-25s gathered at the museum and will take part in a memorial flyover April 18. https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=10151520539525343&set=a.441041055342

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