The division, along with the 101st Airborne Division perfected new tactics and doctrine for helicopter-borne assaults over the next five years in Vietnam.

Later on Friday, US President Barack Obama is due to meet some of the troops involved in the helicopter-borne assault.

A helicopter-borne assault involving 40 members of 32 Battalion was launched the next day, however the attack had to be aborted at the last minute to due thunderstorm activity that limited visibility.

During Operation Musketeer, units of the brigade made the first British helicopter-borne assault in history.

The Lieutenant General, who has led Serbian troops since early in the war, personally commanded a helicopter-borne assault on the Bosnian Army stronghold atop the mountain.

In addition, HMS Ocean and Theseus acted as jumping-off points for Britain's helicopter-borne assault (the world's first).

Royal Navy carriers HMS Ocean and Theseus acted as floating bases to ferry troops ashore by helicopter in the first ever large-scale helicopter-borne assault.

On the night of May 1st alone, there were thirteen helicopter-borne assaults conducted by special-operations units based in Afghanistan.

The great success of this, the first helicopter-borne assault, signalled the close of the assault landing craft era.

Some raids have received less attention, like the helicopter-borne assault of a madrasa, a religious school, thought to be harboring Jalalhuddin Haqqani, a senior Taliban military commander.