Operation Long Horn

Luis · Post by **Luis** » Wed Feb 16, 2011 1:57 pm

Operation Longhorn
Date taken: April 1952
Photographer: John Dominis

RickC · Post by **RickC** » Wed Feb 16, 2011 7:59 pm

I have a photo album from my father's Army days and most of the pictures are labled "LOnghorn". Any info on the excercise? I know it involved his unit relocating to Texas.....
Rick

Post by **wesk** » Wed Feb 16, 2011 11:51 pm

April 1952 exercise 82nd AB simulated invasion with a repelling attack using 3200 paratroops in a boondoggled drop that was canx for high winds but the message didn't get to the drop commander and 290 + injured and one killed.

RickC · Post by **RickC** » Thu Feb 17, 2011 8:35 am

Thanks Wes. He wasn't in the 82nd but he did mention riding in the back of a 2-1/2 ton truck all the way to texas. In some of the pictures there's a clothesline strung down the center of the trucks with uniforms hung on them.......
Rick