Basic Overview
Start date: 20 November 1944
End date: 5 December 1944
Scope: Minor
Nature: Land, Airborne
Status: Implemented
End date: 5 December 1944
Scope: Minor
Nature: Land, Airborne
Status: Implemented
Operation Details
'Table Top' was a US airborne operation to parachute a small force onto Manawarat on Leyte island in the Japanese-occupied Philippine islands group (20 November/5 December 1944).
,The undertaking delivered 241 men of Company C, 127th Airborne Engineering Battalion, the 1st Platoon of Company C, 187th Parachute/Glider Infantry, the 221st Airborne Medical Company, the headquarters group of the 511th Parachute Signal Company, and the Reconnaissance Platoon of Major General Joseph M. Swing’s US 11th Airborne Division.
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