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...interview with talk show host Jay Leno, Operation Dumbo Drop star Danny Glover said that the U.S. military maintained good relations with Vietnamese mountain villages during the war by air-dropping elephants to them...

Author: By Alison D. Overholt, | Title: Operation Dumbo Drop: Two Tons of Weak Humor | 8/1/1995 | See Source »

...April 4, 1968, several elephants were in fact parachuted into these villages, Glover said...

Author: By Alison D. Overholt, | Title: Operation Dumbo Drop: Two Tons of Weak Humor | 8/1/1995 | See Source »

...Glover, as a U.S. green beret commander, squares off against up-and-coming green beret leader Ray Liotta. The two disagree over how to handle relations with a mountain village on the edge of the Ho Chi Minh trail, and while they are off on a scouting mission, a group of Viet Cong enter the village and punish the locals for helping Americans by shooting their elephant...

Author: By Alison D. Overholt, | Title: Operation Dumbo Drop: Two Tons of Weak Humor | 8/1/1995 | See Source »

...village is horrified by the killing because not only is their elephant their only farm labor source, but he is held sacred by village tradition. And it is up to Liotta and Glover to get them...

Author: By Alison D. Overholt, | Title: Operation Dumbo Drop: Two Tons of Weak Humor | 8/1/1995 | See Source »

Your imagination can take over at this point: joined by a sarcastic requisitions officer (Denis Leary), and two inept privates (Doug E. Doug and Corin Nemec), Glover and Liotta argue themselves all the way to an available elephant...

Author: By Alison D. Overholt, | Title: Operation Dumbo Drop: Two Tons of Weak Humor | 8/1/1995 | See Source »

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