Editing Paratrooper (section)

=== Peru ===
{{Main|Paratrooper Company|Sinchis}}

During the [[Ecuadorian–Peruvian War]], the Peruvian army had also established its own paratrooper unit and used it to great effect by seizing the Ecuadorian port city of [[Puerto Bolívar]], on July 27, 1941, marking the first time in the Americas that [[airborne forces|airborne]] troops were used in combat.<ref>The paratroopers were dropped from Italian [[Caproni Ca.111]] bomber-transports. [https://translate.google.com/translate?js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=1&eotf=1&u=http://www.arribasiemprearriba.com/Articulos/ParacaidismoEnElPeru.htm&sl=es&tl=en Skydiving in Peru] by General Alberto Thorndike Elmore</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.oocities.org/es/conflictoperuecuador1941/fap-1941.html |title=El CAP en la guerra con el Ecuador en 1941 |publisher=Oocities.org |access-date=2014-02-25}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.arribasiemprearriba.com/Articulos/ParacaidismoEnElPeru.htm |title=El Paracaidismo en el Perú |publisher=Arribasiemprearriba.com |access-date=2014-02-25 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140808022330/http://www.arribasiemprearriba.com/Articulos/ParacaidismoEnElPeru.htm |archive-date=2014-08-08 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

In 1965, a paratrooper unit known as the [[Sinchis]] was established under the [[Civil Guard (Peru)|Civil Guard]] as a [[counterinsurgency]] and anti-narcotics force. With the dissolution of the Civil Guard in 1991, the unit became part of the [[National Police of Peru]].