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Question:

What happened in operation Urgent Fury? (1983, Grenada) On 25 October 1983

Author: Lane Peters



Answer:

Rangers from Alpha and Bravo Companies, 1st Ranger Battalion and elements of 2nd Ranger Battalion conducted an airfield seizure, jumping from 500ft into Point Salinas Airfield. Some Rangers had hot wired bull dozers to clear obstacles off the runway. On the afternoon of 26 October 1983, these Rangers would fend off a counterattack of three armored personnel carries with gunships from the USS Independence, capturing 250 Cuban combatants. They later went on and rescued 138 American medical students


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