On 5 November , Britain and France landed Motion paratroopers along the Suez Canal .

Suffering Catastrophe from a lack of infantry , the Israelis brought up paratroopers during the night of October 16/17 .

The paratroopers drew Getting Egyptian attention long enough for the Israelis to move Motion bridging equipment Supply to the canal undetected .

Armored forces later extricated the paratroopers .

The metropolitan operation Military_operation would be led Conquering by Col. Antoine Argoud , with French paratroopers descending on Arriving strategic airfields .

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 .

While some airborne objectives were quickly met Come_together , many paratroopers landed Self_motion far from their drop zones and were unable to fulfill Achieve their objectives on the first day .

Reinforced Cause_change_of_strength by paratroopers , the French and their Vietnamese allies tightened Cause_change_of_strength a net around the defending Viet Minh , but delays Change_event_time in the movement of French forces left gaps through which most of the Viet Minh guerillas , and many of the arms caches the operation was expected to seize , escaped .

Many of the aircraft carrying Carry_goods the paratroopers from North Africa were shot down Use_firearm or were damaged Damaging and turned Becoming back by friendly fire and enemy action .

The bridge was not finally secured Getting until three days after the start Process_start of the operation , when another battalion of the Durham Light Infantry , led by the paratroopers , established Building a bridgehead on the north bank of the river .

XXX Corps had to seize Conquering the bridge themselves instead of speeding over a captured bridge onwards to Arnhem , where the British paratroopers were still holding Defending the north end of the bridge .

After the ground forces failed Earnings_and_losses to relieve Cure the paratroopers on time , they were overrun on 21 September .

at the same time that xxx corps ' tanks moved Motion over the nijmegen bridge , 36 hours late , after seizing it from the germans , the british paratroopers at the arnhem bridge were capitulating Surrendering , unable to hold Defending on any longer .

`` 3 free french sas paratroopers , 1 woman ( janine boitard ) and 1 resistance fighter against 2 german soldiers on the railroad near the bridge before the explosion '' .