Today in SF History: December 20

Today in Special Forces History:

1989: Operation Just Cause (invasion of Panama) kicks off. Special Forces teams perfom quiet but vital operations ensuring the successful overthrow of General Manuel Noriega, the Panamian narcodictator who had declared war on the USA, expecting no retribution. Noriega iis coming to the end of a prison sentence for narcotrafficking. 

source: The Special Forces Regimental History Calendar, 1993. Special Forces Historical Society Research Organization, Seminole, FL, 1993. (privately printed)

The SFHS in turn credits the Office of Command Historian, USASOC, Fort Bragg, NC. 

The same information, uncredited, is online here. 

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