operation manta

[pithead]

which military unit was involved in operation manta in 1984

[Zen]

1983 (10 August)


Operation �Manta�: 314 French paratroopers sent to N�Djam�na.

[jake-the-peg]

3,500 air force, Foreign Legion, and airborne personnel by the time it was over apparently

http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?frd/cstd y:@field(DOCID+td0131)

[Octavius]

5 August 1983 and again in January 1984, it was the French Foreign Legion who were deployed along the 16th Parallel in order to prevent any Libyan incursions in the future. Apparently it worked as the Libyans stopped their offensive operations and concentrated on their positions in Chad.

Probably more info than you neede for your quiz?? But I think you probably require: The Foreign Legion.