SPECIAL OPERATIONS
Son Tay Prison Raid (1970)
Operation Ivory Coast was a military operation conducted in North Vietnam during the Vietnam War by United States Special Operations Forces. On November 21, 1970, a joint United States Air Force/United States Army force commanded by Air Force Brig. Gen. LeRoy J. Manor and Army Colonel Arthur D. "Bull" Simons landed 56 U.S. Army Special Forces ... FULL STORY
Operation Tailwind (1970)
Operation Tailwind was a covert incursion into southeastern Laos during the Vietnam War, conducted between 11 September and 13 September 1970. The purpose of the operation was to create a diversion for a Royal Lao Army offensive and to exert pressure on the occupation forces of the People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN). It involved a ... FULL STORY
Operation Gift (1968)
The 1968 Israeli raid on Lebanon, code-named Operation Gift (Hebrew: מבצע תשורה), was an Israel Defense Forces (IDF) Special Forces operation against Beirut International Airport on the night of December 27 - 28, 1968. The commandos from the Army's elite Sayeret Matkal destroyed 13 civilian airplanes belonging to Middle East Airlines (MEA) in response to ... FULL STORY
Operation Shock (1968)
Operation Shock was a commando operation executed in 1968 by the Israeli commando unit Sayeret Matkal to sabotage of power plant and Nile bridges in Egypt. ... FULL STORY
Raid at Cabanatuan (1945)
The Raid at Cabanatuan was a rescue of Allied prisoners of war (POWs) and civilians from a Japanese camp near Cabanatuan City, in the Philippines. On January 30, 1945, during World War II, United States Army Rangers, Alamo Scouts, and Filipino guerrillas liberated more than 500 from the POW camp.After the surrender of tens of ... FULL STORY
Operation Cold Comfort (1945)
During World War II, Operation Cold Comfort was a failed SAS raid that began with a parachute drop north of Verona on February 17, 1945. The 12 man ski team under Capt. Littlejohn, and their equipment were widely scattered in the drop, and thereafter found themselves among hostile locals of essentially German origin. Their ... FULL STORY
Operation Tombola (1945)
During World War II, Operation Tombola was a major Special Air Service raid on German rear areas in Italy. Fifty men parachuted on Cusna Mountain area (Reggio Emilia) between 4 and 24 March 1945, under command of Major Roy Farran. A number of air drops provided weapons for the rag-tag force which armed local ... FULL STORY
Operation Jedburgh (1944)
Jedburgh was an operation in World War II in which men from the British Special Operations Executive, the U.S. Office of Strategic Services joined with men from the Free French Bureau Central de Renseignements et d'Action ("Intelligence and operations central bureau"), and the Dutch or Belgian Army to parachute into Nazi occupied France, Holland, or ... FULL STORY
Operation Titanic (1944)
Operation Titanic was the codename for an operation carried out on 5/6 June 1944 by the Royal Air Force and the Special Air Service in support of the Normandy landings during the Second World War. It was one of four Royal Air Force deception operations carried out at the time, the others being Operation Glimmer by ... FULL STORY
Operation Loyton (1944)
Operation Loyton was the codename given to an ill-fated Special Air Service (SAS) mission in the Vosges department of France during the Second World War. The mission, between 12 August and 9 October 1944, had the misfortune to be parachuted into the Vosges Mountains, at a time when the German Army was reinforcing the area, against ... FULL STORY
Operation Houndsworth (1944)
Operation Houndsworth was the codename for a British Special Air Service operation during the Second World War. The operation carried out by 'A' Squadron, 1st Special Air Service between 6 June and 6 September 1944, was centered around Dijon in the Burgundy region of France. Their objective was to disrupt German lines ... FULL STORY
Operation Dingson (1944)
Operation Dingson (5–18 June 1944) was an operation in the Second World War, conducted by about 178 Free Frenchparatroops of the 4th Special Air Service (SAS), commanded by Colonel Pierre-Louis Bourgoin, who jumped into German occupied France near Vannes, Morbihan, Southern Brittany, in Plumelec, on the night of 5 June 1944 (11 h 30), (Captain ... FULL STORY
CoSNS
The AN/PVS-30 Clip-on Sniper Night Sight (CoSNS) is a lightweight, in-line weapon-mounted sight used in conjunction with the day optic sight on the M110 SASS and the XM2010 ... FULL STORY
