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Ok before I pose this question , I realise that this is ASB , as the technology isn’t likely to be available in the time period, I was wondering what tactical changes or doctrinal changes in wallied operations if in say mid 43, you had a general use of helicopters, i.e. general utility helicopters capable of carry squads of say 8 soldiers, I was wondering how it might have changed something like market garden , would it have made the job of seizing the bridges easier by allowing LZ’s closer to the bridges. What about in the pacific, could we see the first ideas of vertical envelopment forged in the jungles of Iowa Jima or Saipan?

I’ll re-iterate I know the PODs required are impossible, the other way to phrase the question is, if a WW2 type conventional war happened in western Europe/ Pacific Theatre in say 1953 , what effect would helicopters have on the tactics used by the western forces have? See above for the scenarios I have in mind

Mods feel free to punt this to ASB forum, if you feel it deserves to be there.
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