The soldiers were from the 1st Battalion , Parachute Regiment ( `` 1 Para '' ) .

That Khe was quickly reinforced Cause_change_of_strength by the Foreign Legion 's 1st Parachute Battalion ( 1st BEP ) , which parachuted Self_motion in on 17 September .

The British airborne operations Military_operation in North Africa were conducted Action by British paratroopers of the 1st Parachute Brigade , commanded Control by Brigadier Edwin Flavell , as part of the Tunisian Campaign Military_operation of World War Military_operation II , over the period between November 1942 and April 1943 .

When planning Arranging began Process_start for Operation Military_operation Torch , the Allied invasion Attack of North Africa in 1942 , it was decided Deciding to attach Connect the 1st Parachute Brigade , part of the 1st Airborne Division , to the Allied forces Causation taking part Dispersal , as an American airborne unit , the 2nd Battalion , 509th Parachute Infantry Regiment , was also to be used Using during the invasion Attack .

When planning Arranging began Process_start for Operation Military_operation Torch , the Allied invasion Attack of North Africa in 1942 , it was decided Deciding to attach Connect the 1st Parachute Brigade , part of the 1st Airborne Division , to the Allied forces Causation taking part Dispersal , as an American airborne unit , the 2nd Battalion , 509th Parachute Infantry Regiment , was also to be used Using during the invasion Attack .

After a short period of training Education_teaching and being brought Bringing up to operational Being_in_operation strength , mainly with men from the 2nd Parachute Brigade , also part of the 1st Airborne Division , the brigade was deployed Arranging to North Africa in November 1942 .

Due to the inability of units of the British First Army to link Connect up with the Pont Du Fahs force , the 2nd Parachute Battalion , under Lieutenant Colonel John Frost , was forced Request to retreat Escaping over fifty miles towards the nearest Allied units ; it was attacked Attack several times during the retreat Escaping , and although it reached Arriving Allied lines safely it had taken Getting more than 250 casualties Catastrophe .

Project Rulison , named Name_conferral after the rural community of Rulison , Colorado , was an underground 40-kiloton nuclear test project in the United States on September 10 , 1969 , about SE of the town of Grand Valley , Colorado ( now named Parachute , Colorado ) in Garfield County .

The only German forces in the area were elements of the 1st Parachute Division ( `` 1 .

Soon after , the division , minus the 2nd Parachute Brigade , sailed Self_motion for England in preparation for Operation Overlord , the invasion of Normandy .

The parachute drop was carried out Military_operation by the US Army 's 503rd Parachute Infantry Regiment and elements of the Australian Army 's 2/4th Field Regiment into Nadzab , New Guinea in the Markham Valley , observed by General Douglas MacArthur , circling Motion overhead in a B-17 .

The operation was carried out Military_operation by Brigadier Gerald Lathbury 's 1st Parachute Brigade , part of the British 1st Airborne Division .

By this time the 1st Parachute Brigade had been withdrawn Escaping to Malta and took no further part in the conquest of Sicily .

The British 2nd Parachute Brigade was part of the Operation Rugby airborne landings Self_motion in August 1944 .

Operation Rösselsprung was a coup de main operation Military_operation , involving Participation direct action by a combined Cause_to_amalgamate parachute and glider-borne assault by the 500th SS Parachute Battalion and a planned subsequent link-up with ground forces of the XV Mountain Corps converging Come_together on Drvar .