Word: airdrop
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bridge had been parachuted down out of the sky to the U.S. troops seemingly isolated in the midst of the enemy. Eight C-119s of Major General William H. Tunner's Combat Cargo Command, each hauling a single span, had carried out the world's first airdrop of a bridge. The retreating column was free to move ahead, vehicles...
...Thanksgiving Day, U.S. troops in the front lines ate turkey with trimmings, some of it delivered by airdrop. Next day, at 8 a.m., the big push got rolling. At first, enemy resistance was so negligible that some soldiers who had had no chance for a feast the day before because they were on the move sat down and gorged themselves on the fine holiday meal sent up by the quartermasters...
...Aubrey Coad, who moved constantly through his positions on the Naktong with the cool aplomb of a duke at a garden party. During the first day's action, one British company was cut off. No one got excited. Coad calmly ordered the company supplied by tanks and an airdrop, and a U.S. helicopter went into the cut-off company and brought out its first wounded. The British thought this was a particularly admirable operation...