February 3 and 4 1945

Operation Shoestring

On 3 and 4 February 1945, 1,830 paratroopers and 240 ‘Oscar’ decoy dolls from Colonel Haugen’s 511th Regimental Combat Team of the 11th Airborne Division parachuted into Tagaytay Ridge in the Philippines.

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