MAKE A MEME View Large Image Paratroopers of the 187th Airborne Regimental Combat Team, seated in the cargo compartment of... - NARA - 542315.tif Scope and content COMBAT CARGO KOREA -- Paratroopers of the 187th Airborne Regimental Combat Team seated in the cargo ...
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Keywords: COMBAT CARGO, KOREA - Paratroopers of the 187th Airborne Regimental Combat Team, seated in the cargo compartment of... - NARA - 542315.tif Scope and content COMBAT CARGO KOREA -- Paratroopers of the 187th Airborne Regimental Combat Team seated in the cargo compartment of 314th Troop Carrier Group C-119 Flying Boxcar sweat out the flight to the dropzone at Munsan-ni Korea in March 1951 This was the second combat airborne assualt for the U S Air Force aircraft of the 314th Toop Carrier Group since thier arrival in the Far East in August 1950 The first assault was at Sukchon-Sunchon Korea in Spetember 1950 when the 187th was dropped shortly after the Allied landing on the beachhead at Inchon Dropping paratroopers is only one of the many missions performed by the 314th since they joined the Far East Air Forces two years ago General notes 542315 Local identifier 342-AF-117302AC Department of Defense Department of the Air Force 09/26/1947 - Still Picture Records Section Special Media Archives Services Division NWCS-S National Archives at College Park 8601 Adelphi Road College Park MD 20740-6001 ca 03/1951 Record group Record Group 342 Records of U S Air Force Commands Activities and Organizations 1900 - 2003 Record group ARC 654 Black and White Photographs of U S Air Force and Predecessors' Activities Facilities and Personnel Domestic and Foreign compiled 1930 - 1975 documenting the period 1863 - 1975 Series ARC 542185 File unit File unit ARC Variant control numbers Agency-Assigned Identifier NASM 4A 37880<br /> NAIL Control Number NWDNS-342-AF-117302AC yes Other versions NARA-cooperation PD-USGov 1951 in Korea 187th Infantry Regiment United States 314th Airlift Wing United States Air Force C-119s in the Korean War
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