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Korean War military history
Operation Tomahawk: America’s Last Combat Jump of the Korean War
On the morning of March 23, 1951, the skies over Korea roared with the sound of C-119 Flying Boxcars and C-46 Commandos. The drop zone: a muddy expanse near Munsan-ni, just north of Seoul. The mission: cut off retreating Chinese and North Korean forces before they could regroup. Nearly 3,500 …