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Cannons Under Canopy: American Parachute Field Artillery in Operation Market-Garden
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Title
Cannons
Under
Canopy
:
American
Parachute
Field
Artillery
in
Operation
Market-Garden
Subcollection
Field
Artillery
in
World
War
II
:
1939-1945
Description
The
United
States
Army
currently
maintains
four
battalions
and
two
batteries
of
cannon
artillery
on
airborne
status
.
Parachuted
guns
played
roles
in
several
World
War
II
operations
,
Korea
and,
most
recently
,
Panama
in
1989
.
However
, the
airborne
artillery
has
placed
a
battalion-plus
under
canopy
successfully
into
combat
only
once—
more
than
55
years
ago
in
September
1944
during
Operation
Market-Garden
. In this
operation
, the
376th
Parachute
Field
Artillery
Battalion
(PFAB)
and
B
Battery
,
377th
PFAB
dropped
into
Holland
near
Nijmegen
and
Eindhoven
,
respectively
.
Author
Major
Scott
T
.
Glass
Publisher
Field
Artillery
Journal
Courtesy of
Field
Artillery
Journal
Date
July-August
2000
Type
Text
Format
Article
Rights
Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited.
Audience
Students/Faculty/Staff
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