List of largest parachute assaults

This is a list of the largest parachute assaults in history. The overwhelming majority of these occurred during World War II.

• Invasion of Normandy: 13,100 American paratroopers and 8,500 British and Canadian paratroopers
• Operation Varsity: March 24, 1945. 16,000 paratroopers.
• Operation Market Garden: September 17–25, 1944. 34,600 paratroopers.
• Battle of Crete: May 20 – June 1, 1941. 15,000 paratroopers.
• Tangail Airdrop: Over 5000 Indian Army paratroopers paradropped to capture Poongli Bridge in East Pakistan (present-day Bangladesh) during the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971, also known as the Bangladesh Liberation War.

See also

• American airborne landings in Normandy
• Operation Tonga
• British airborne operations in North Africa
• List of amphibious assault operations

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