Colonel William A. Phillips

Paratroopers wait at Shiraz Air Base to board a Lockheed C-130 Hercules aircraft for a training mission during Exercise CENTO on 1 August 1977

55th Airborne Brigade of Shiraz (Persian: تیپ ۵۵ هوابرد, romanizedTīp-e 55-e Havābord) is an airborne separate brigade of Ground Forces of Islamic Republic of Iran Army based in Shiraz, Fars Province.[1] It was engaged in the Iran-Iraq War.[citation needed]

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