Warfare Operation Urgent Fury (The Invasion of Grenada, 1983)

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Members of the 82nd Airborne Division approach a building while on patrol.

82nd Airborne Division take cover behind a gravel embankment while patrolling a road.

82nd Airborne Division soldiers with M47 Dragon

82nd Airborne Division are airlifted into a landing zone by helicopter.

82nd Airborne Division assemble their gear and prepare to board a helicopter at Point Salines Airport.

 

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1/75th Rangers are briefed on plans for a night patrol.

An aerial view of Green Island. 25th Oct 1983

AH-1 Cobra helicopter firing its 20mm cannon during a mission.

UH-60 Black Hawk (Blackhawk) helicopter while transporting troops

Gunners man the window-mounted M-60D machine guns of a UH-60 Blackhawk helicopter.

 

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Members of the 82nd Airborne Division aboard a heavily loaded M151 light vehicle prepare to depart for Grenada.

82nd Airborne artillery personnel load and fire M102 105 mm howitzers.

 

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Members of the 82nd Airborne Division aboard a heavily loaded M151 light vehicle prepare to depart for Grenada.

steel beam in front of M151 use for?

US.forces in Grenada had more power than US.force in Somalia 90's era

 

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It has been in use since WWII, it‘s meant to cut cables or ropes.

 

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steel beam in front of M151 use for?

The nazis had a bad habit of tying steel wire across the road between two tree trunks or posts this caused decapitation of jeep crew drivers and passengers, so a simple steel bar was welded to the front of the jeep to catch the wire and break it saving the driver and passengers from danger.

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Paratroopers of the 82nd Airborne Division storm a building in Grenada during Operation Urgent Fury, October 27th, 1983

 

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82nd airborne paratroopers man a roadblock

 

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steel beam in front of M151 use for?

used to cut wires that are fixed to trees or poles on both sides of the road to decapitate soldiers in open vehicles like jeeps etc.. etc..

 

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The nazis had a bad habit of tying steel wire across the road between two tree trunks or posts this caused decapitation of jeep crew drivers and passengers, so a simple steel bar was welded to the front of the jeep to catch the wire and break it saving the driver and passengers from danger.

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War zones also tend to have more than their fare share of downed power lines and other overhead wires that are no longer overhead. They're very effective against those too...

 

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US Rangers From 1/75 Rangers Are Briefed On plans For a Night Patrol, An M60 With A Night Sigh Is Mounted On their M151 Utility vehicle,

 

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October 1983. 82nd Airborne artillery gunners load and fire M102 105 mm howitzers during Operation Urgent Fury.

 

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82nd Airborne await deployment at Salines Airport near St. Georges. Oct 1983

 

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Members of the 82nd Airborne check for weapons and explosives during patrol. October 1983

 

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American medical students talk with US military personnel as they await their departure from the island.

 

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Members of the People's Revolutionary Army and their Cuban advisors, after their capture by members of the US military and the Eastern Caribbean Defense Force. 28 Oct

 

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US military personnel wait to board a C-130 Hercules aircraft for their return home at the conclusion of the invasion.

 

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A wounded soldier is carried toward a C-141B Starlifter aircraft for medical evacuation.