This operation was designed to drop the 187th RCT about 30 kilometres (19 mi) north of the then current front line.

[2][3] One hundred twenty C-119s and C-46s dropped 3,437 paratroopers of the 187th RCT and 12 officers and men of the Indian Army 60th Parachute Field Ambulance (PFA) near Munsan-ni in the second largest airborne operation of the war.

[4] The 187th Regiment airborne were also known as "Rakkasans", a Japanese term translating to "falling parachute man".

[5] This marked the first time 105 mm howitzers and other heavy equipment had been successfully dropped.

[3] The United States Army would not have another full scale combat jump until 1967 during the Vietnam War, known as Operation Junction City.