3MAR2003 - US Special forces recon teams link up with Kurkish Peshmurga fighters to prepare The Northern Front of OIF. These were the advance forces of Task Force Viking.
Joint Special Operations Task Force - North (JSOTF-N), also known as Task Force Viking was the command responsible for the northern front during Operation Iraqi Freedom Rotation I (2003–2004). It secured Kirkuk, Mosul, and the northern oil fields; prevented 13 Iraqi Arm...

17 September 1944 The first allied paratroopes to arriva were the 21st Independent Parachute Company at 12.40 pm, who marked the landing zones for the gliders and parachutists in advance of the main landings. The landings were largely unopposed and the battalions formed up in good order ready to carry out their tasks by 2.45 pm. Whilst the Airlanding Brigade moved into defensive positions around the landing zones, the 1st Parachute Brigade prepa...

The Battle of Ia Drang was one of the first major battles between the United States Army and t North Vietnamese Army (NVA) during the Vietnam War.
The two-part battle took place between November 14 and November 18, 1965, at two landing zones (LZs) northwest of Plei Me in the Central Highlands of South Vietnam (approximately 35 miles south-west of Pleiku). The battle derives its name from the Drang River which runs through the valley northwest of...

17 December 1944 - The German Paratrooper's drop zone was 7 miles (11 km) north of Malmedy and their target was the "Baraque Michel" crossroads. Von der Heydte and his men were to take it and hold it for approximately twenty-four hours until being relieved by the 12th SS Panzer Division, thereby hampering the Allied flow of reinforcements and supplies into the area.

Just after midnight on 17 December, 112 Ju 52 transport planes with around ...