AIR EXTRACTION

摘要

Operations carried out in extreme environments such as those seen above often require extraction of either own troops or freed civilians taken as hostages on the ground. As we shall see, the art begun to evolve as soon as aircraft with sufficient reliable agility and flexibility became available. Otto Skorzeny's 1943 'Unternehmen Eiche', the rescue of Italy's former dictator Benito Mussolini from detention on the Gran Sasso massif, made use of rocket-retarded DFS 230C-1 assault gliders to insert a combined force of Luftwaffe Fallschirmjaeger and Waffen-SS troops, and subsequently a Fieseler Fi-156C-3/ Trop Storch stol aircraft for subject extraction. Some later special missions have featured equally special aircraft, operating at much greater range.