OVER ENEMY TERRITORY IN KOREA--One of the nine missions assigned to the 315th Air Division (Combat Cargo) is the dropping of paratroopers in airborne assaults

C-46D Commando of 437th TCW drops paras over Korea 1951

Paratroopers of the 187th RCT Regimental Combat Team float earthward from C-119's to cut off retreating enemy units south of Munsan, Korea.

About to step into thin air, a paratrooper of the 187th Regimental Combat Team pauses momentarily while the man below clears the area

Battle equipped paratroopers of the 187th Regimental Combat Team wait to board C-46s of the 315th Combat Cargo Group prior to take-off on an airborne assault mission somewhere in Korea.

COMBAT CARGO, KOREA -- Paratroopers of the 187th Airborne Regimental Combat Team, seated in the cargo compartment of 314th Troop Carrier Group C-119 "Flying Boxcar," "sweat out" the flight to the dropzone at Munsan-ni, Korea, in March, 1951

C-119s drop paras Korea Nov 1952

Air dropped by the 437th Troop Carrier Wing, paratroopers of the 187th Regimental Combat Team descend to earth during a practice maneuver somewhere in the Far East.

Operation Tomahawk, U.S.A.F. Fairchild C-119 of the 315th Air Division (Combat Cargo) fly in formation over a Fifth Air Force base in Korea, 23 March 1951